27 SHEMU'EL -1- SAMUEL 27

David Retires To Gath

1 SHEMU'EL - 1 SAMUEL 27:1

  1     ^¶  And David said in his heart, I shall now perish one day by the hand of Saul: there is nothing better for me than that I should speedily escape into the land of the Philistines; and Saul shall despair of me, to seek me anymore in any coast of Yisrael: so shall I escape out of his hand.

1 SHEMU'EL - 1 SAMUEL 27:2

  2    And David arose, and he passed over with the six hundred men that were with him to Achish, the son of Maoch, king of Gath.

1 SHEMU'EL - 1 SAMUEL 27:3

  3    And David dwelt with Achish at Gath, he and his men, every man with his household, even David with his two wives, Ahinoam the Jezreelitess, and Abigail the Carmelitess, Nabal's wife.

1 SHEMU'EL - 1 SAMUEL 27:4

  4    And it was told Saul that David was fled to Gath: and he sought no more again for him.

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  5    And David said to Achish, If I have now found favor in your eyes, let them give me a place in some town in the country, that I may dwell there: for why should your servant dwell in the royal city with you?

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  6    Then Achish gave him Ziklag that day: wherefore Ziklag pertains to the kings of Yahudah to this day.

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  7    And the time that David dwelt in the country of the Philistines was a full year and four months.

David Deceives Achish

1 SHEMU'EL - 1 SAMUEL 27:8

  8     ^¶  And David and his men went up, and invaded the Geshurites, and the Gezrites, and the Amalekites: for those [nations were] of old the inhabitants of the land, as you go to Shur, even to the land of Egypt.

1 SHEMU'EL - 1 SAMUEL 27:9

  9    And David smote the land, and left neither man nor woman alive, and took away the sheep, and the oxen, and the asses, and the camels, and the apparel, and returned, and came to Achish.

1 SHEMU'EL - 1 SAMUEL 27:10

  10    And Achish said, Whither have you made a road to day? And David said, Against the south of Yahudah, and against the south of the Yerahmeelites, and against the south of the Kenites.

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  11    And David saved neither man nor woman alive, to bring [tidings] to Gath, saying, Lest they should tell on us, saying, So did David, and so [will be] his manner all the while he dwells in the country of the Philistines.

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  12    And Achish believed David, saying, He has made his people Yisrael utterly to abhor him; therefore he shall be my servant forever.