9 At this Aʹchish answered and said to David: “I well know that you have been good in my own eyes, like an angel of God.+ Only it is the princes of the Phi·lisʹtines that have said, ‘Let him not go up with us into the battle.’

17 then your maidservant said, ‘Let the word of my lord the king serve, please, to give rest.’ For just like an angel+ of the [true] God is the way my lord the king is, to distinguish what is good and what is bad,+ and may Jehovah your God himself prove to be with you.”