1And David [beloved] said in his heart, I shall now perish one day by the hand of Sha’ul [desired]: [there is] nothing better for me than that I should speedily escape into the land of the P’lishtim [Immigrants]; and Sha’ul [desired] shall despair of me, to seek me any more in any coast of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God]: so shall I escape out of his hand. 2And David [beloved] arose, and he passed over with the six hundred men that [were] with him unto Akhish [meaning disputed; I will blacken (or terrify) or only a man], the son of Ma’okh [oppression], king of Gat [Winepress]. 3And David [beloved] dwelt with Akhish [meaning disputed; I will blacken (or terrify) or only a man] at Gat [Winepress], he and his men, every man with his household, [even] David [beloved] with his two wives, Achino’am [my brother is delight] the Yizre’elit [God Sows], and Avigayil [my father is joy] the Carmelit [garden-land], Naval [fool]'s wife. 4And it was told Sha’ul [desired] that David [beloved] was fled to Gat [Winepress]: and he sought no more again for him.

5And David [beloved] said unto Akhish [meaning disputed; I will blacken (or terrify) or only a man], If I have now found grace in youⁱ eyes, let them give me a place in some town in the country, that I may dwell there: for why should youⁱ servant dwell in the royal city with youⁱ? 6Then Akhish [meaning disputed; I will blacken (or terrify) or only a man] gave him Ziklag [Winding] that day: wherefore Ziklag [Winding] pertains unto the kings of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised] unto this day. 7And the time that David [beloved] dwelt in the country of the P’lishtim [Immigrants] was a full year and four months.

8And David [beloved] and his men went up, and invaded the G’shuri [A Bridge], and the Gizri [bridge], and the ‘Amalekim [Dwellers in a Valley]: for those [nations were] of old the inhabitants of the land, as youⁱ go to Shur [wall], even unto the land of Mitzrayim [Egypt - The Narrow Place]. 9And David [beloved] struck 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 Akhish [meaning disputed; I will blacken (or terrify) or only a man]. 10And Akhish [meaning disputed; I will blacken (or terrify) or only a man] said, Where have you^2f made a raid to day? And David [beloved] said, Against the south of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised], and against the south of the Yerachme’eli [my God have pity], and against the south of the Keini [traveling tinkers or blacksmiths]. 11And David [beloved] saved neither man nor woman alive, to bring [tidings] to Gat [Winepress], saying, Lest they should tell on us, saying, So did David [beloved], and so [will be] his manner all the while he dwells in the country of the P’lishtim [Immigrants]. 12And Akhish [meaning disputed; I will blacken (or terrify) or only a man] believed David [beloved], saying, He has made his people Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] utterly to abhor him; therefore he shall be my servant forever.