Return therefore, and go in peace, and offend not the eyes of the princes of the Philistines.

and now, turn back, and go in peace, and thou dost do no evil in the eyes of the princes of the Philistines.'

Why now return, and go in peace, that you displease not the lords of the Philistines.

So now go back, and go in peace, so that you do not make the lords of the Philistines angry.

Therefore, return, and go in peace, so that you do not offend the eyes of the princes of the Philistines."

Wherefore now return,.... To Ziklag:
and go in peace; not only in a peaceable manner, easy and satisfied, as David was at his very heart to hear this, but all prosperity and happiness attend thee; the Jews (n) distinguish between wishing persons to go in peace, and to go to peace; the former they observe has not issued happily, when the other has, and they instance in the wish of Jethro to Moses, and of David to Absalom:
that thou displease not the lords of the Philistines: and what would be the consequence of that he could not say, but suggests it would be most for his peace and safety to depart.
(n) T. Bab. Beracot, fol. 64. 1. Sepher Alphes, par. 1. fol. 421. 2.