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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1But David kept thinking to himself, “Someday Saul is going to get me. The best thing I can do is escape to the Philistines. Then Saul will stop hunting for me in Israelite territory, and I will finally be safe.” |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2So David took his 600 men and went over and joined Achish son of Maoch, the king of Gath. |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3David and his men and their families settled there with Achish at Gath. David brought his two wives along with him—Ahinoam from Jezreel and Abigail, Nabal’s widow from Carmel. |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4Word soon reached Saul that David had fled to Gath, so he stopped hunting for him. |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5One day David said to Achish, “If it is all right with you, we would rather live in one of the country towns instead of here in the royal city.” |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6So Achish gave him the town of Ziklag (which still belongs to the kings of Judah to this day), |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7and they lived there among the Philistines for a year and four months. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8David and his men spent their time raiding the Geshurites, the Girzites, and the Amalekites—people who had lived near Shur, toward the land of Egypt, since ancient times. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9David did not leave one person alive in the villages he attacked. He took the sheep, goats, cattle, donkeys, camels, and clothing before returning home to see King Achish. |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10“Where did you make your raid today?” Achish would ask. And David would reply, “Against the south of Judah, the Jerahmeelites, and the Kenites.” |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11No one was left alive to come to Gath and tell where he had really been. This happened again and again while he was living among the Philistines. |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12Achish believed David and thought to himself, “By now the people of Israel must hate him bitterly. Now he will have to stay here and serve me forever!” |
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