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There is nothing better for me than to escape to the land of the Philistines. Then Saul will stop searching for me all over Israel, and I will slip out of his hand.” <A name="3"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/27-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>So David set out with his six hundred men and went to Achish son of Maoch,<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">a</a></span> the king of Gath. <A name="4"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/27-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>David and his men settled in Gath with Achish. Each man had his family with him, and David had his two wives: Ahinoam of Jezreel and Abigail of Carmel, the widow of Nabal. <A name="5"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/27-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>And when Saul learned that David had fled to Gath, he no longer searched for him. <A name="6"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/27-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>Then David said to Achish, “If I have found favor in your eyes, let me be assigned a place in one of the outlying towns, so I can live there. For why should your servant live in the royal city with you?” <A name="7"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/27-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>That day Achish gave him Ziklag, and to this day it still belongs to the kings of Judah. <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/27-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>And the time that David lived in Philistine territory amounted to a year and four months. <A name="9"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/27-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Now David and his men went up and raided the Geshurites, the Girzites, and the Amalekites. (From ancient times these people had inhabited the land extending to Shur and Egypt.) <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/27-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Whenever David attacked a territory, he did not leave a man or woman alive, but he took the flocks and herds, the donkeys, camels, and clothing. <p class="reg"> Then he would return to Achish, <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/27-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>who would ask him, “What have you raided today?” <p class="reg"> And David would reply, “The Negev of Judah,” or “The Negev of Jerahmeel,” or “The Negev of the Kenites.” <A name="12"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/27-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>David did not leave a man or woman alive to be brought to Gath, for he said, “Otherwise they will report us, saying, ‘This is what David did.’<span class="thinq"> </span>” And this was David’s custom the whole time he lived in Philistine territory. <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/27-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>So Achish trusted David, thinking, “Since he has made himself an utter stench to his people Israel, he will be my servant forever.”</p><A name="fn"></a><div id="fnlink"><br /><br /><b>Footnotes:</b><br><br><span class="fnverse">2</span> <span class="footnotesbot">a</span> <i>Maoch</i><span class="thin"> </span> is a variant of <i>Maacah</i><span class="thin"> </span>; see <a href="../1_kings/2.htm#39">1 Kings 2:39</a>.<br><br /></div><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The Berean Bible (<a href=http://berean.bible>www.Berean.Bible</a>) <a href=http://bereanbible.com>Berean Study Bible (BSB)</a> © 2016, 2020 by <a href=http://biblehub.com>Bible Hub</a> and <a href=http://berean.bible>Berean.Bible</a>. 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