It happened in those days, that the Philistines gathered their hosts together for warfare, to fight with Israel. Achish said to David, Know you assuredly, that you shall go out with me in the host, you and your men.
"Understand that you and your men are to go out with me in the army"  (1 Samuel 28:1).  This order from the king of Gath was addressed to David, whose duplicity and deception finally caught up with him; and he found himself in the position of being ordered to go to war against Israel.  It was the providential help of God himself, and that only, which got David out of the dilemma that confronted him.