1╙┴ 29:1 ╬OW THE ╨HILISTINES GATHERED TOGETHER ALL THEIR ARMIES TO ┴PHEK: AND THE ╔SRAELITES PITCHED BY A FOUNTAIN WHICH IS IN ╩EZREEL.
1╙┴ 29:2 ┴ND THE LORDS OF THE ╨HILISTINES PASSED ON BY HUNDREDS, AND BY THOUSANDS: BUT ─AVID AND HIS MEN PASSED ON IN THE REREWARD WITH ┴CHISH.
1╙┴ 29:3 ╘HEN SAID THE PRINCES OF THE ╨HILISTINES, ╫HAT DO THESE ╚EBREWS HERE? ┴ND ┴CHISH SAID UNTO THE PRINCES OF THE ╨HILISTINES, ╔S NOT THIS ─AVID, THE SERVANT OF ╙AUL THE KING OF ╔SRAEL, WHICH HATH BEEN WITH ME THESE DAYS, OR THESE YEARS, AND ╔ HAVE FOUND NO FAULT IN HIM SINCE HE FELL UNTO ME UNTO THIS DAY?
1╙┴ 29:4 ┴ND THE PRINCES OF THE ╨HILISTINES WERE WROTH WITH HIM; AND THE PRINCES OF THE ╨HILISTINES SAID UNTO HIM, ═AKE THIS FELLOW RETURN, THAT HE MAY GO AGAIN TO HIS PLACE WHICH THOU HAST APPOINTED HIM, AND LET HIM NOT GO DOWN WITH US TO BATTLE, LEST IN THE BATTLE HE BE AN ADVERSARY TO US: FOR WHEREWITH SHOULD HE RECONCILE HIMSELF UNTO HIS MASTER? SHOULD IT NOT BE WITH THE HEADS OF THESE MEN?
1╙┴ 29:5 ╔S NOT THIS ─AVID, OF WHOM THEY SANG ONE TO ANOTHER IN DANCES, SAYING, ╙AUL SLEW HIS THOUSANDS, AND ─AVID HIS TEN THOUSANDS?
1╙┴ 29:6 ╘HEN ┴CHISH CALLED ─AVID, AND SAID UNTO HIM, ╙URELY, AS THE ╠╧╥─ LIVETH, THOU HAST BEEN UPRIGHT, AND THY GOING OUT AND THY COMING IN WITH ME IN THE HOST IS GOOD IN MY SIGHT: FOR ╔ HAVE NOT FOUND EVIL IN THEE SINCE THE DAY OF THY COMING UNTO ME UNTO THIS DAY: NEVERTHELESS THE LORDS FAVOUR THEE NOT.
1╙┴ 29:7 ╫HEREFORE NOW RETURN, AND GO IN PEACE, THAT THOU DISPLEASE NOT THE LORDS OF THE ╨HILISTINES.
1╙┴ 29:8 ┴ND ─AVID SAID UNTO ┴CHISH, ┬UT WHAT HAVE ╔ DONE? AND WHAT HAST THOU FOUND IN THY SERVANT SO LONG AS ╔ HAVE BEEN WITH THEE UNTO THIS DAY, THAT ╔ MAY NOT GO FIGHT AGAINST THE ENEMIES OF MY LORD THE KING?
1╙┴ 29:9 ┴ND ┴CHISH ANSWERED AND SAID TO ─AVID, ╔ KNOW THAT THOU ART GOOD IN MY SIGHT, AS AN ANGEL OF ╟OD: NOTWITHSTANDING THE PRINCES OF THE ╨HILISTINES HAVE SAID, ╚E SHALL NOT GO UP WITH US TO THE BATTLE.
1╙┴ 29:10 ╫HEREFORE NOW RISE UP EARLY IN THE MORNING WITH THY MASTER'S SERVANTS THAT ARE COME WITH THEE: AND AS SOON AS YE BE UP EARLY IN THE MORNING, AND HAVE LIGHT, DEPART.
1╙┴ 29:11 ╙O ─AVID AND HIS MEN ROSE UP EARLY TO DEPART IN THE MORNING, TO RETURN INTO THE LAND OF THE ╨HILISTINES. ┴ND THE ╨HILISTINES WENT UP TO ╩EZREEL.