Help QuickNav Adv. Options
AMP

AMP

Click to Change

Return to Top

Return to Top

Printer Icon

Print

Copy
Copy Options
Format by: Verse Paragraph
Strong's
Red Letter
Audio Bibles
The Blue Letter Bible

1 Samuel 27 :: Amplified Bible (AMP)

Choose a new font size and typeface
Audio Bibles

David Flees to the Philistines

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 27:1

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 27:1 -

But David said in his heart, “Now I will die one day by the hand of Saul. There is nothing better for me than to escape to the land of the Philistines. Then Saul will give up searching for me inside the borders of Israel, and I will escape from his hand [once and for all].”

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 27:2

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 27:2 - So David and the six hundred men who were with him arose and crossed over to Achish the son of Maoch, king of Gath.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 27:3

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 27:3 - And David lived with Achish at Gath, he and his men, each man with his household, and David with his two wives, Ahinoam the Jezreelitess, and Abigail the Carmelitess, [who was] Nabal’s widow.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 27:4

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 27:4 - When Saul was told that David had fled to Gath, he no longer searched for him.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 27:5

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 27:5 -

Then David said to Achish, “If I have found favor in your sight, let me be given a place [of my own] in one of the cities in the country, so that I may live there; for why should your servant live in the royal city with you?”

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 27:6

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 27:6 - Then Achish gave David [the town of] Ziklag that day. Therefore Ziklag has belonged to the kings of Judah to [fn]this day.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 27:7

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 27:7 - The number of days that David lived in the country of the Philistines was a year and four months.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 27:8

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 27:8 -

Now David and his men went up and raided the Geshurites, the Girzites, and the Amalekites [the enemies of Israel that Joshua had failed to annihilate]; for they had inhabited the land from ancient times, as one comes to Shur even as far as the land of Egypt.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 27:9

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 27:9 - David attacked the land and did not leave a man or a woman alive, but he took the sheep, the cattle, the donkeys, the camels, and the clothing, and returned to Achish.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 27:10

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 27:10 - When Achish asked, “Where did you raid today?” David replied, “Against the Negev (the South country) of Judah, and against the Negev of the Jerahmeelites, and against the Negev of the Kenites.”

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 27:11

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 27:11 - David did not leave a man or a woman alive to bring news to Gath, saying [to himself], “Otherwise they will tell about us, saying, ‘This is what David has done, and this has been his practice all the time that he has lived in the country of the Philistines.’”

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 27:12

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 27:12 - Achish believed David, saying, “He has certainly become hated by his people in Israel; so he will always be my servant.”
See the AMP Preface (Especially for Parenthesis, Brackets, & Asterisks).
AMP Footnotes
I.e. the time of this writing.
AMP

Amplified Bible Copyright (c) 2015 by

The Lockman Foundation, La Habra, CA 90631 All rights reserved.

For Permission to Quote Information visit http://www.lockman.org.

BLB Searches
Search the Bible
AMP
  [?]

Advanced Options

Other Searches

Multi-Verse Retrieval
x
AMP
Daily Devotionals
x

Blue Letter Bible offers several daily devotional readings in order to help you refocus on Christ and the Gospel of His peace and righteousness.

Daily Bible Reading Plans
x

Recognizing the value of consistent reflection upon the Word of God in order to refocus one's mind and heart upon Christ and His Gospel of peace, we provide several reading plans designed to cover the entire Bible in a year.

One-Year Plans

Two-Year Plan

Translations available: King James Version, New King James Version, New Living Translation, New International Version, English Standard Version, Christian Standard Bible, New American Standard Bible 2020, New American Standard Bible 1995, Legacy Standard Bible 2021, New English Translation, Revised Standard Version, American Standard Version, Young's Literal Translation, Darby Translation, Webster's Bible, Hebrew Names Version, Reina-Valera 1960, Latin Vulgate, Westminster Leningrad Codex, Septuagint, Morphological Greek New Testament, and Textus Receptus.