◄ 1 Samuel 27:12 ►
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Good News Translation
But Achish trusted David and said to himself, "He is hated so much by his own people the Israelites that he will have to serve me all his life."

New Revised Standard Version
Achish trusted David, thinking, “He has made himself utterly abhorrent to his people Israel; therefore he shall always be my servant.”

Contemporary English Version
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."

New American Bible
Achish trusted David, thinking, “His people Israel must certainly detest him. I shall have him as my vassal forever.”

Douay-Rheims Bible
And Achis believed David, saying: He hath done much harm to his people Israel: Therefore he shall be my servant for ever.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And Achis believed David, saying: He hath done much harm to his people Israel: Therefore he shall be my servant for ever.

utterly to abhor [heb] to stink

1 Samuel 13:4 And all Israel heard this report: Saul hath smitten the garrison of the Philistines: and Israel took courage against the Philistines. And the people were called together after Saul to Galgal.

Genesis 34:30 And when they had boldly perpetrated these things, Jacob said to Simeon and Levi: You have troubled me, and made me hateful to the Chanaanites and Pherezites, the inhabitants of this land. We are few: they will gather themselves together and kill me; and both I, and my house shall be destroyed.

Context
David and the Philistines
…11And David saved neither man nor woman, neither brought he any of them to Geth, saying: Lest they should speak against us. So did David, and such was his proceeding all the days that he dwelt in the country of the Philistines. 12And Achis believed David, saying: He hath done much harm to his people Israel: Therefore he shall be my servant for ever.
Cross References
Exodus 5:21
And they said to them: The Lord see and judge, because you have, made our savour to stink before Pharao and his servants, and you have given him a sword, to kill us.

1 Samuel 27:11
And David saved neither man nor woman, neither brought he any of them to Geth, saying: Lest they should speak against us. So did David, and such was his proceeding all the days that he dwelt in the country of the Philistines.

1 Samuel 28:1
And it came to pass in those days, that the Philistines gathered together their armies, to be prepared for war against Israel: And Achis said to David: Know thou now assuredly, that thou shalt go out with me to the war, thou, and thy men.

2 Samuel 10:6
And the children of Ammon seeing that they had done an injury to David, sent and hired the Syrians of Rohob, and the Syrians of Soba, twenty thousand footmen, and of the king of Maacha a thousand men, and of Istob twelve thousand men.

1 Samuel 27:11
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