1 Samuel 29:8
Good News Translation
David answered, "What have I done wrong, sir? If, as you say, you haven't found any fault in me since the day I started serving you, why shouldn't I go with you, my master and king, and fight your enemies?"

New Revised Standard Version
David said to Achish, “But what have I done? What have you found in your servant from the day I entered your service until now, that I should not go and fight against the enemies of my lord the king?”

Contemporary English Version
"But what have I done?" David asked. "Do you know of anything I've ever done that would keep me from fighting the enemies of my king?"

New American Bible
But David said to Achish: “What have I done? What fault have you found in your servant from the day I entered your service until today, that I cannot go to fight against the enemies of my lord the king?”

Douay-Rheims Bible
And David said to Achis: But what have I done, or what hast thou found in me thy servant, from the day that I have been in thy sight until this day, that I may not go and fight against the enemies of my lord the king?

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And David said to Achis: But what have I done, or what hast thou found in me thy servant, from the day that I have been in thy sight until this day, that I may not go and fight against the enemies of my lord the king?

But what have

1 Samuel 12:3 Speak of me before the Lord, and before his anointed, whether I have taken any man's ox, or ass: if I have wronged any man, if I have oppressed any man, if I have taken a bribe at any man's hand: and I will despise it this day, and will restore it to you.

1 Samuel 17:29 And David said: What have I done? is there not cause to speak?

1 Samuel 20:8 Deal mercifully then with thy servant: for thou hast brought me, thy servant, into a covenant of the Lord with thee. But if there be any iniquity in me, do thou kill me, and bring me not in to thy father.

1 Samuel 26:18 And he said: Wherefore doth my lord persecute his servant? What have I done? or what evil is there in my hand?

with [heb] before

1 Samuel 28:2 And David said to Achis: Now thou shalt know what thy servant will do. And Achis said to David: And I will appoint thee to guard my life for ever.

2 Samuel 16:18,19 And Chusai answered Absalom: Nay: for I will be his, whom the Lord hath chosen, and all this people, and all Israel, and with him will I abide. . . .

Psalm 34:13,14 Keep thy tongue from evil, and thy lips from speaking guile. . . .

Matthew 6:13 And lead us not into temptation. But deliver us from evil. Amen.

Context
The Philistines Reject David
7Return therefore, and go in peace, and offend not the eyes of the princes of the Philistines. 8And David said to Achis: But what have I done, or what hast thou found in me thy servant, from the day that I have been in thy sight until this day, that I may not go and fight against the enemies of my lord the king?9And Achis answering, said to David: I know that thou art good in my sight, as an angel of God: But the princes of the Philistines have said: He shall not go up with us to the battle.…
Cross References
1 Samuel 27:10
And Achis said to him: Whom hast thou gone against to day? David answered: Against the south of Juda, and against the south of Jerameel, and against the south of Ceni.

1 Samuel 29:7
Return therefore, and go in peace, and offend not the eyes of the princes of the Philistines.

1 Samuel 29:7
Top of Page
Top of Page