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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.”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v9_27_2"><span class="reftext" id="1Sam.27.2-1Sam.27.3" class="v9_27_2">2-3</span>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. </span><span class="v9_27_4"><span class="reftext" id="1Sam.27.4" class="v9_27_4">4</span>When Saul found out that David had run off to Gath, he stopped trying to catch him.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v9_27_5"><span class="reftext" id="1Sam.27.5" class="v9_27_5">5</span>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.”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v9_27_6"><span class="reftext" id="1Sam.27.6" class="v9_27_6">6</span>Achish gave David the town of Ziklag that same day, and Ziklag has belonged to the kings of Judah ever since.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v9_27_7"><span class="reftext" id="1Sam.27.7" class="v9_27_7">7</span>David was in Philistia for a year and four months. </span><span class="v9_27_8"><span class="reftext" id="1Sam.27.8" class="v9_27_8">8</span>The Geshurites, the Girzites, and the Amalekites lived in the area from Telam to Shur<a href="#fn" id="link_1Sam.27.8!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> and on as far as Egypt, and David often attacked their towns. </span><span class="v9_27_9"><span class="reftext" id="1Sam.27.9" class="v9_27_9">9</span>Whenever David and his men attacked a town, they took the sheep, cattle, donkeys, camels, and the clothing, and killed everyone who lived there.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v9_27_9">After he returned from a raid, David always went to see Achish, </span><span class="v9_27_10"><span class="reftext" id="1Sam.27.10" class="v9_27_10">10</span>who would ask, “Where did you attack today?”<a href="#fn" id="link_1Sam.27.10!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> </span></p><p class="par"><span class="v9_27_10">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<a href="#fn" id="link_1Sam.27.10!f.2" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> live.” </span><span class="v9_27_11"><span class="reftext" id="1Sam.27.11" class="v9_27_11">11</span>That's why David killed everyone in the towns he attacked. He thought, “If I let any of them live, they might come to Gath and tell what I've really been doing.”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v9_27_11">David made these raids all the time he was in Philistia. </span><span class="v9_27_12"><span class="reftext" id="1Sam.27.12" class="v9_27_12">12</span>But Achish trusted David and thought, “David's people must be furious with him. From now on he will have to take orders from me.”</span></p> <a name="fn"></a><br /><br /><br /><b>Footnotes:<br /><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">27.8 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">lived … Shur: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">One ancient translation; Hebrew “had lived for a long time in Shur.”</char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">27.10 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">Where … today: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">A few Hebrew manuscripts, the Dead Sea Scrolls, and three ancient translations; most Hebrew manuscripts “Didn't you make a raid today?”</char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">27.10 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">Jerahmeel … Kenites: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">These were clans of the Judah tribe.</char></note></div></div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div align="center"><p><span style="font-size:11pt;">Contemporary English Version, Second Edition (CEV®)</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt;">© 2006 American Bible Society. 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