1 Samuel 29:6

29:6 So Achish summoned David and said to him, “As surely as the Lord lives, you are an honest man, and I am glad to have you ¹  serving ²  with me in the army. ³  I have found no fault with you from the day that you first came to me until the present time. But in the opinion ⁴  of the leaders, you are not reliable. ⁵ 

1 Samuel 30:22

30:22 But all the evil and worthless men among those who had gone with David said, “Since they didn’t go with us, ⁶  we won’t give them any of the loot we retrieved! They may take only their wives and children. Let them lead them away and be gone!”

[29:6]  ¹ tn Heb “it is good in my eyes.” Cf. v. 7.

[29:6]  ² tn Heb “your going forth and your coming in.” The expression is a merism.

[29:6]  ³ tn Heb “camp.”

[29:6]  ⁴ tn Heb “eyes.”

[29:6]  ⁵ tn Heb “good.”

[30:22]  ⁶ tc Heb “with me.” The singular is used rather than the plural because the group is being treated as a singular entity, in keeping with Hebrew idiom. It is not necessary to read “with us,” rather than the MT “with me,” although the plural can be found here in a few medieval Hebrew mss. See also the LXX, Syriac Peshitta, and Vulgate, although these versions may simply reflect an understanding of the idiom as found in the MT rather than a different textual reading.