Run there quickly, for I cannot do anything until you arrive there.” (This incident explains why the town was called Zoar.)

David did just as the Lord commanded him, and he struck down the Philistines from Gibeon all the way to Gezer.

Haggith’s son Adonijah visited Bathsheba, Solomon’s mother. She asked, “Do you come in peace?” He answered, “Yes.”

So Achish summoned David and said to him, “As surely as the Lord lives, you are an honest man, and I am glad to have you serving with me in the army. I have found no fault with you from the day that you first came to me until the present time. But in the opinion of the leaders, you are not reliable.