David then asked him, ‘Will you lead me to these raiders? ’ He said, ‘Swear to me by God that you won’t kill me or turn me over to my master, and I will lead you to them.’
‘ “As I live #– #this is the declaration of the Lord God #– #he will die in Babylon, in the land of the king who put him on the throne, whose oath he despised and whose covenant he broke.
So Achish summoned David and told him, ‘As the Lord lives, you are an honourable man. I think it is good to have you fighting in this unit with me, because I have found no fault in you from the day you came to me until today. But the leaders don’t think you are reliable.
So he led him, and there were the Amalekites, spread out over the entire area, eating, drinking, and celebrating because of the great amount of plunder they had taken from the land of the Philistines and the land of Judah.
and I will have you swear by the Lord, God of heaven and God of earth, that you will not take a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites among whom I live,