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.
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.
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 the king said, And where is the son of your lord? And Ziba said to the king, Behold, he is staying in Jerusalem, for he said, Today the house of Israel will turn back to me the kingdom of my father.
And a thousand men were with him from Benjamin; also Ziba, the servant of the house of Saul, and his fifteen sons and his twenty servants with him. And they had rushed over the Jordan before the king.
And the king said, Is there not yet a man to the house of Saul, that I may do with him the kindness of God to him? And Ziba said to the king, There is yet a son to Jonathan, lame in both feet.
Let every man be on guard against his neighbor, and do not trust any brother. For supplanting every brother will supplant, and every neighbor will go about as one slandering.
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.