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

¹¶ Na ka huihuia e nga Pirihitini a ratou taua katoa ki Apeke, i te noho hoki a Iharaira ki te puna i Ietereere.

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

²A ka haere nga rangatira o nga Pirihitini me o ratou rau, me o ratou mano, ka haere atu ano a Rawiri ratou ko ana tangata, me Akihi, i te hiku.

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?”

³Katahi nga rangatira o nga Pirihitini ka mea, He aha ta enei Hiperu i konei? Ano ra ko Akihi ki nga rangatira o nga Pirihitini, Ehara ianei tenei i a Rawiri, i te tangata a Haora kingi o Iharaira i noho nei ki ahau i enei ra, i enei tau ranei, a kahore ahau i kite i tetahi he ona, o te ra ano i riro mai ai ia ki ahau a mohoa noa nei?

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?

⁴Otiia ka riri nga rangatira o nga Pirihitini ki a ia, a ka mea nga rangatira o nga Pirihitini ki a ia, Whakahokia tenei tangata kia hoki ki te wahi i whakaritea e koe mona; a kaua ia e haere tahi tatou ki te whawhai; kei whawhai ia ki a tatou i t e tatauranga; he aha hoki tana mea hei whakamarie mo tona rangatira? he teka ianei ko nga upoko o enei tangata?

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

⁵Ehara ianei tenei i a Rawiri i waiata ra ratou tetahi ki tetahi, i nga kanikani, i mea ra, Na Haora ana mano i patu, na Rawiri ko ana tekau mano?

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.

⁶¶ Katahi a Akihi ka karanga ki a Rawiri, ka mea ki a ia, E ora ana a Ihowa, tika tonu tau, pai tonu hoki ki taku titiro tou haerenga atu me tou haerenga mai i a taua nei i te ope; kahore nei hoki i mau i ahau tetahi he ou, o te ra ano i haere mai a i koe ki ahau a taea noatia tenei ra: otiia ki te titiro a nga rangatira kahore ou pai.

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

⁷Na hoki atu aianei, haere hoki i runga i te rangimarie; kei kino tau mahi ki te titiro a nga rangatira o nga Pirihitini.

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?”

⁸Na ka mea a Rawiri ki a Akihi, I aha hoki ahau? ko te aha hoki a tau pononga i kitea e koe, o te ra i noho ai ahau ki tou aroaro a taea noatia tenei ra, ka kore ai ahau e haere ki te whawhai ki nga hoariri o toku ariki, o te kingi?

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.’

⁹Na ka whakahoki a Akihi, ka mea ki a Rawiri, E mohio ana ano ahau he pai koe ki taku titiro, rite tonu ano ki te anahera a te Atua: otiia ko nga rangatira o nga Pirihitini hei ki mai, Kaua tenei e haere tahi tatou ki te whawhai.

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.”

¹⁰Heoi maranga wawe i te ata, me nga tangata ano a tou ariki i haere tahi mai nei koutou, a ka maranga wawe koutou i te ata, ka marama, haere.

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.

¹¹Heoi ka maranga wawe a Rawiri, ratou ko ana tangata, a haere ana i te ata, hoki ana ki te whenua o nga Pirihitini. Ko nga Pirihitini ia i haere ki runga, ki Ietereere.