OLD TESTAMENT

1 Samuel 29:9

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Achish answered David, “I know that you are good in my sight, as an angel of God. Notwithstanding, the princes of the Philistines have said, ‘He shall not go up with us to the battle.’

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Verse 9. Angel of God, equally incapable of any meanness. The pagans admitted the existence of good and of evil spirits. Sanctius. This exaggerated compliment occurs, Genesis 33:10. 2 Kennicott. 14:17 and 19:27.

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