Have not I Commanded thee? Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for YY thy Elohim is with thee whithersoever thou goest.
And of whom hast thou been afraid or feared, that thou hast lied, and hast not remembered me, nor laid it to thy heart? have not I held my peace even of old, and thou fearest me not?
And when the Plishtim heard that the children of Yisrael were gathered together to Mizpeh, YY s of the Plishtim went up against Yisrael. And when the children of Yisrael heard it, they were afraid of the Plishtim.
Now David was the son of that Ephrathite of BethlehemYhudah, whose name was Yishai; and he had eight sons: and the man went among men for an old man in the days of Saul.
And he changed his behaviour before them, and feigned himself mad in their hands, and scrabbled on the doors of the gate, and let his spittle fall down upon his beard.