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1 Samuel 27:12--28:2

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27:12 So Achish trusted David, thinking to himself,¹ “He is really hated² among his own people in³ Israel! From now on⁴ he will be my servant.”

The Witch of Endor

28:1 In those days the Philistines gathered their troops⁵ for war in order to fight Israel. Achish said to David, “You should fully understand that you and your men must go with me into the battle.”⁶ 28:2 David replied to Achish, “That being the case, you will come to know what your servant can do!” Achish said to David, “Then I will make you my bodyguard⁷ from now on.”⁸

¹tn Heb “saying.”

²tn Heb “he really stinks.” The expression is used figuratively here to describe the rejection and ostracism that David had experienced as a result of Saul’s hatred of him.

³tc Many medieval Hebrew mss lack the preposition “in.”

⁴tn Heb “permanently.”

⁵tn Heb “their camps.”

⁶tc The translation follows the LXX (εἰς πόλεμον, eis polemon) and a Qumran ms מלחמה במלחמה ([m]lkhmh) bammilkhamah (“in the battle”) rather than the MT’s בַמַּחֲנֶה (bammakhaneh, “in the camp”; cf. NASB). While the MT reading is not impossible here, and although admittedly it is the harder reading, the variant fits the context better. The MT can be explained as a scribal error caused in part by the earlier occurrence of “camp” in this verse.

⁷tn Heb “the guardian for my head.”

⁸tn Heb “all the days.”

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