¹A Filištíni shromaždili všetky svoje vojská do Aféku a Izrael táboril pri studni, ktorá je v Jizreele.

¹Now the Philistines gathered together all their armies to Aphek: and the Israelites encamped by the spring which is in Jezreel.

²A kniežatá Filištínov išli ta po stách a po tisícoch, a Dávid a jeho mužovia išli pozade s Achišom.

²The lords of the Philistines passed on by hundreds, and by thousands; and David and his men passed on in the rear with Achish.

³Ale velitelia Filištínov povedali: Čo tu robia títo Hebreji? A Achiš odpovedal veliteľom Filištínov: Či nie je toto Dávid, služobník Saula, izraelského kráľa, ktorý bol so mnou toto už rok alebo toto už roky? A nenašiel som na ňom ničoho od toho dňa, jako odpadol od Saula, až do tohoto dňa.

³Then the princes of the Philistines said, “What about these Hebrews?” Achish said to the princes of the Philistines, “Isn’t this David, the servant of Saul the king of Israel, who has been with me these days, or rather these years, and I have found no fault in him since he fell away to this day?”

⁴Ale velitelia Filištínov sa nahnevali na neho a velitelia Filištínov mu povedali: Vráť toho muža, nech sa navráti na svoje miesto, kam si ho usadil, ale nech neide s nami dolu do boja, aby sa nám nestal v boji protivníkom. Lebo veď čím si bude môcť tento získať priazeň svojho pána? Či azda nie hlavami tých mužov?

⁴But the princes of the Philistines were angry with him; and the princes of the Philistines said to him, “Make the man return, that he may go back to his place where you have appointed him, and let him not go down with us to battle, lest in the battle he become an adversary to us. For with what should this fellow reconcile himself to his lord? Should it not be with the heads of these men?

⁵Či nie je toto Dávid, ktorému spievali v kolotancoch a vraveli: Saul porazil svoje tisíce, ale Dávid svoje desaťtisíce?

⁵Is not this David, of whom they sang one to another in dances, saying, ‘Saul has slain his thousands, David his ten thousands?’”

⁶Vtedy povolal Achiš Dávida a povedal mu: Jako že žije Hospodin, statočný si, a ľúbi sa mi tvoje vychádzanie i tvoje vchádzanie so mnou do vojska, lebo som nenašiel na tebe ničoho zlého od toho dňa, ktorého si prišiel ku mne, až do tohoto dňa. Ale sa neľúbiš kniežatám.

⁶Then Achish called David, and said to him, “As Yahweh lives, you have been upright, and your going out and your coming in with me in the army is good in my sight; for I have not found evil in you since the day of your coming to me to this day. Nevertheless, the lords don’t favor you.

⁷Preto teraz vráť sa a idi v pokoji, aby si neučinil zlého v očiach kniežat Filištínov.

⁷Therefore now return, and go in peace, that you not displease the lords of the Philistines.”

⁸Na to riekol Dávid Achišovi: A čože som urobil? A čo si našiel na svojom služobníkovi počnúc od toho dňa, v ktorom som bol po prvé pred tebou, až do tohoto dňa, že nemám ísť a bojovať proti nepriateľom svojho pána kráľa?

⁸David said to Achish, “But what have I done? What have you found in your servant so long as I have been before you to this day, that I may not go and fight against the enemies of my lord the king?”

⁹Ale Achiš odpovedal a riekol Dávidovi: Viem, lebo si dobrý v mojich očiach ako anjel Boží, len že velitelia Filištínov riekli, nepojde vraj s nami hore do boja!

⁹Achish answered David, “I know that you are good in my sight, as an angel of God. Notwithstanding the princes of the Philistines have said, ‘He shall not go up with us to the battle.’

¹⁰Preto teraz vstaň skoro ráno i sluhovia tvojho pána, ktorí prišli s tebou, a tedy keď vstanete skoro ráno, a bude vám svetlo, iďte.

¹⁰Therefore 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.”

¹¹A tak vstal Dávid skoro ráno, on i jeho mužovia, aby odišiel za rána, aby sa navrátil do zeme Filištínov. A Filištíni išli hore do Jizreela.

¹¹So David rose up early, he and his men, to depart in the morning, to return into the land of the Philistines. The Philistines went up to Jezreel.