Now then, get up early in the morning, along with your master’s servants who came with you, and go as soon as it is light.”
Parallel translations
- WEB Therefore now rise up early in the morning with the servants of your lord who have come with you; and as soon as you are up early in the morning, and have light, depart.”
- KJV Wherefore 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.
- NKJV Now therefore, rise early in the morning with your master’s servants who have come with you. And as soon as you are up early in the morning and have light, depart.”
- NASB Now then, rise early in the morning with the servants of your lord who have come with you, and as soon as you have risen early in the morning and have light, leave.”
- NLT Now get up early in the morning, and leave with your men as soon as it gets light.”
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Achish instructs David and his men to leave early the next morning. He arranges their orderly departure at first light.
Overview
The king directs David to rise early with his men and set out as soon as there is light. The practical command finalizes David's release from the Philistine army. By God's providence, David is sent home just before the battle in which Saul will perish.
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- 1 Chr 12:19Some from Manasseh defected to David when he went with the Philistines to fight against Saul. (They did not help the Philistines because the Philistine rulers consulted and sent David away, saying, “It will cost us our heads if he defects to his master Saul.”)
- 1 Chr 12:22For at that time men came to David day after day to help him, until he had a great army, like the army of God.
- 1 Sam 30:1–2On the third day David and his men arrived in Ziklag, and the Amalekites had raided the Negev, attacked Ziklag, and burned it down.
- Gen 22:14And Abraham called that place The LORD Will Provide. So to this day it is said, “On the mountain of the LORD it will be provided.”
- Ps 37:23–24The steps of a man are ordered by the LORD who takes delight in his journey.
- 2 Pet 2:9if all this is so, then the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from trials and to hold the unrighteous for punishment on the day of judgment.
- 1 Cor 10:13No temptation has seized you except what is common to man. And God is faithful; He will not let you be tempted beyond what you can bear. But when you are tempted, He will also provide an escape, so that you can stand up under it.
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