1 Samuel 27 :: Darby Translation (DBY)

David Flees to the Philistines

1Sa 27:1And David said in his heart, I shall now perish one day by the hand of Saul: there is nothing better for me than that I should speedily escape into the land of the Philistines; and Saul will despair of me to seek me any more within all the limits of Israel, and I shall escape out of his hand.

1Sa 27:2

1Sa 27:2And David arose and passed over, he and the six hundred men that were with him, to Achish, the son of Maoch, king of Gath.

1Sa 27:3

1Sa 27:3And David abode with Achish at Gath, he and his men, every man with his household; David with his two wives, Ahinoam the Jizreelitess, and Abigail the Carmelitess, Nabal's wife.

1Sa 27:4

1Sa 27:4And it was told Saul that David had fled to Gath; and he sought no more for him.

1Sa 27:5

1Sa 27:5And David said to Achish, If now I have found favour in thine eyes, let them give me a place in some country-town, that I may abide there; for why should thy servant abide in the royal city with thee?

1Sa 27:6

1Sa 27:6And Achish gave him Ziklag that day; therefore Ziklag belongs to the kings of Judah to this day.

1Sa 27:7

1Sa 27:7And the time that David abode in the country of the Philistines was a year and four months.

1Sa 27:8

1Sa 27:8And David and his men went up and made a raid upon the Geshurites, and the Gerzites, and the Amalekites: for those were of old the inhabitants of the land, as thou goest to Shur, and as far as the land of Egypt.

1Sa 27:9

1Sa 27:9And David smote 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 Achish.

1Sa 27:10

1Sa 27:10So Achish said, Have ye not made a raid to-day? And David said, Against the south of Judah, and against the south of the Jerahmeelites, and against the south of the Kenites.

1Sa 27:11

1Sa 27:11And David left neither man nor woman alive, to bring them to Gath, for he said, Lest they should tell of us, saying, So did David. And such was his custom as long as he abode in the country of the Philistines.

1Sa 27:12

1Sa 27:12And Achish trusted David, saying, He has made himself utterly odious among his people Israel; and he shall be my servant for ever.

In 1867, John Nelson Darby translated the New Testament from Greek into English. Further revisions were done in 1872 and 1884. Darby’s work was first published as The Holy Scriptures: A New Translation from the Original Languages by J. N. Darby. After Darby’s death in 1882, some of his students worked together to produce the complete Darby Bible based on the Masoretic Hebrew text, Darby’s German (Elberfelder), and the French (Pau) translations. In 1890, the first complete Darby Bible was published in English. This translation of the Bible is in the public domain.

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1 Samuel 27 :: Darby Translation (DBY)

David Flees to the Philistines

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