Your servant Joab has done this thing to turn about the face of the matter, and my lord is wise according to the wisdom of an angel of God, to know all that is in the land.
And your servant said, Please let the word of my lord the king rest. For as a messenger of God, so is my lord the king, to understand the good and the evil. And Jehovah your God shall be with you.
And he spoke slander against your servant to my lord the king. And my lord the king is as a messenger of God; yet you do that which is good in your eyes.
For all the house of my father would be nothing except men of death before my lord the king, and you have set your servant among those eating at your table. And what right is there to me any more, even to cry any more to the king?
And Achish answered and said to David, I have known that you are a good one in my eyes, like an angel of God, yet the leaders of the Philistines have said, He shall not go up with us into battle.