1 Samuel


  • |1 Samuel 27:1| but he thought to himself, “One of these days, Saul is going to kill me. The only way to escape from him is to go to Philistia. Then I'll be outside of Israel, and Saul will give up trying to catch me.”

  • |1 Samuel 27:2| David and his 600 men went across the border to stay in Gath with King Achish the son of Maoch. His men brought their families with them. David brought his wife Ahinoam whose hometown was Jezreel, and he also brought his wife Abigail who had been married to Nabal from Carmel.

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  • |1 Samuel 27:4| When Saul found out that David had run off to Gath, he stopped trying to catch him.

  • |1 Samuel 27:5| One day, David was talking with Achish and said, “If you are happy with me, then let me live in one of the towns in the countryside. I'm not important enough to live here with you in the royal city.”

  • |1 Samuel 27:6| Achish gave David the town of Ziklag that same day, and Ziklag has belonged to the kings of Judah ever since.

  • |1 Samuel 27:7| David was in Philistia for a year and four months.

  • |1 Samuel 27:8| The Geshurites, the Girzites, and the Amalekites lived in the area from Telam to Shur 158 and on as far as Egypt, and David often attacked their towns.

  • |1 Samuel 27:9| Whenever David and his men attacked a town, they took the sheep, cattle, donkeys, camels, and the clothing, and killed everyone who lived there. After he returned from a raid, David always went to see Achish,

  • |1 Samuel 27:10| who would ask, “Where did you attack today?” 159 David would answer, “Oh, we attacked some desert town that belonged to the Judah tribe.” Sometimes David would say, “Oh, we attacked a town in the desert where the Jerahmeel clan lives” or “We attacked a town in the desert where the Kenites 160 live.”


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