The king said to them, “Whatever seems best to you I will do.” So the king stood at the side of the gate, while all the army marched out by hundreds and by thousands.
Now David was sitting between the two gates, and the watchman went up to the roof of the gate by the wall, and when he lifted up his eyes and looked, he saw a man running alone.
and a spirit of justice to him who sits in judgment, and strength to those who turn back the battle at the gate.
Then David mustered the men who were with him and set over them commanders of thousands and commanders of hundreds.
As the lords of the Philistines were passing on by hundreds and by thousands, and David and his men were passing on in the rear with Achish,
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