1 Samuel 15:6

15:6 Saul said to the Kenites, “Go on and leave! Go down from among the Amalekites! Otherwise I will sweep you away ¹  with them! After all, you were kind to all the Israelites when they came up from Egypt.” So the Kenites withdrew from among the Amalekites.

1 Samuel 29:6

29:6 So Achish summoned David and said to him, “As surely as the Lord lives, you are an honest man, and I am glad to have you ²  serving ³  with me in the army. ⁴  I have found no fault with you from the day that you first came to me until the present time. But in the opinion ⁵  of the leaders, you are not reliable. ⁶ 

¹ tc The translation follows the Syriac Peshitta and Vulgate which assume a reading אֶסִפְךָ (’esfÿka, “I sweep you away,” from the root ספה [sfh]) rather than the MT אֹסִפְךָ (’osifÿka, “I am gathering you,” from the root אסף[’sf]).

² tn Heb “it is good in my eyes.” Cf. v. 7.

³ tn Heb “your going forth and your coming in.” The expression is a merism.

⁴ tn Heb “camp.”

⁵ tn Heb “eyes.”

⁶ tn Heb “good.”