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1 Samuel 27 :: New King James Version (NKJV)

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David Allied with the Philistines
David and Achish

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 27:1 - And David said in his heart, “Now I shall perish someday by the hand of Saul. There is nothing better for me than that I should speedily escape to the land of the Philistines; and Saul will despair of me, to seek me anymore in any part of Israel. So I shall escape out of his hand.”

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

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 27:3 - So David dwelt 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, Nabal’s widow.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 27:4 - And it was told Saul that David had fled to Gath; so he sought him no more.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 27:5 - Then David said to Achish, “If I have now found favor in your eyes, let them give me a place in some town in the country, that I may dwell there. For why should your servant dwell in the royal city with you?”

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 27:6 - So Achish gave him Ziklag that day. Therefore Ziklag has belonged to the kings of Judah to this day.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 27:7 - Now the time that David dwelt in the country of the Philistines was one full year and four months.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 27:8 - And David and his men went up and raided the Geshurites, the Girzites,[fn] and the Amalekites. For those nations were the inhabitants of the land from of old, as you go to Shur, even as far as the land of Egypt.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 27:9 - Whenever David attacked the land, he left neither man nor woman alive, but took away the sheep, the oxen, the donkeys, the camels, and the apparel, and returned and came to Achish.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 27:10 - Then Achish would say, “Where have you made a raid today?” And David would say, “Against the southern area of Judah, or against the southern area of the Jerahmeelites, or against the southern area of the Kenites.”

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 27:11 - David would save neither man nor woman alive, to bring news to Gath, saying, “Lest they should inform on us, saying, ‘Thus David did.’ ” And thus was his behavior all the time he dwelt in the country of the Philistines.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 27:12 - So Achish believed David, saying, “He has made his people Israel utterly abhor him; therefore he will be my servant forever.”
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