⁴ The king said to them, What seems you best I will do. The king stood by the gate-side, and all the people went out by hundreds and by thousands.

²⁴ Now David was sitting between the two gates: and the watchman went up to the roof of the gate to the wall, and lifted up his eyes, and looked, and, behold, a man running alone.

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

¹ David numbered the people who were with him, and set captains of thousands and captains of hundreds over them.

⁶ and a spirit of justice to him who sits in judgment, and strength to those who turn back the battle at the gate.