Sa mu el 232 The appearance of David’s battalion stirs up a bitter dispute Jezreel . 18 within the Philistine leadership . The commanders of the Philistine 19 ) שרי פלשתים ( oppose the participation of David’s bat - military units talion on their side in the war, while King Achish tries to defend the battalion’s participation in the coming war . The argument results in Achish’s submissive order to David to go back ( 29 : 1 – 11 ) . It seems that Achish rightly expects some kind of resistance to the participation of David and his battalion in the coming war . Therefore, he arranges that David and his battalion will march with him as the rear guard . Yet seeing them marching with Achish at the end of the at ) שרי פלשתים ( long column, the commanders of the Philistine army first react politely expressing their doubts with a brief question, “ What do these Hebrews do ? ” The narrator creates a wordplay between the v . 3 ) and twice the activity of “passing on” ( עברים derogatory title v . ...
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