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          DASV: 1 Samuel 27

1 Then David thought to himself, "One day I will perish by the
hand of Saul. There is nothing better for me than that I
should escape into the land of the Philistines. Then Saul
will stop searching for me in all the borders of Israel,
and I will escape out of his hand."
2 So David and the 600 men with him left and crossed over to
Achish the son of Maoch, king of Gath.
3 David settled with Achish at Gath, along with his men and
their families. David took his two wives, Ahinoam the
Jezreelitess, and Abigail the Carmelitess, Nabal's
widow with him.
4 It was told Saul that David had fled to Gath. So he stopped
searching for him.

5 David said to Achish, "If now I have found favor in your eyes,
let them give me a place in one of the cities in the country,
that I may live there. Why should your servant live in the
royal city with you?"
6 So Achish gave him Ziklag that day. That is why Ziklag belongs
to the kings of Judah to this day.
7 David lived a year and four months in the Philistine territory.
8 Then David and his men went up and raided the Geshurites,
the Girzites and the Amalekites; for they were the inhabitants
of the land since ancient times, as you go to Shur as far
as the land of Egypt.
9 David attacked the land, and did not leave a man or woman alive,
but took the sheep, oxen, donkeys, camels and the clothes.
Then he returned to Achish.
10 Achish would ask, "Who did you raid today?" David would reply,
"Against the Negev of Judah," or "Against the Negev of the
Jerahmeelites," or "Against the Negev of the Kenites."
11 David left neither man nor woman alive, to bring them back
to Gath, realizing, "Lest they should tell on us, saying,
'This is what David actually did.'" This was his practice
all the time he lived in the country of the Philistines.
12 Achish believed David, thinking, "He has made his people
Israel utterly to abhor him; therefore he will be my servant forever."

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