1 Samuel 27 :: Hebrew Names Version (HNV)

David Flees to the Philistines

1Sa 27:1David said in his heart, I shall now perish one day by the hand of Sha'ul: there is nothing better for me than that I should escape into the land of the Pelishtim; and Sha'ul will despair of me, to seek me any more in all the borders of Yisra'el: so shall I escape out of his hand.

1Sa 27:2

1Sa 27:2David arose, and passed over, he and the six hundred men who were with him, to Akhish the son of Ma`okh, king of Gat.

1Sa 27:3

1Sa 27:3David lived with Akhish at Gat, he and his men, every man with his household, even David with his two wives, Achino'am the Yizre`elite, and Avigayil the Karmelite, Naval's wife.

1Sa 27:4

1Sa 27:4It was told Sha'ul that David was fled to Gat: and he sought no more again for him.

1Sa 27:5

1Sa 27:5David said to Akhish, 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 dwell there: for why should your servant dwell in the royal city with you?

1Sa 27:6

1Sa 27:6Then Akhish gave him Tziklag that day: why Tziklag pertains to the kings of Yehudah to this day.

1Sa 27:7

1Sa 27:7The number of the days that David lived in the country of the Pelishtim was a full year and four months.

1Sa 27:8

1Sa 27:8David and his men went up, and made a raid on the Geshuri, and the Gizri, and the `Amaleki; for those nations were the inhabitants of the land, who were of old, as you go to Shur, even to the land of Mitzrayim.

1Sa 27:9

1Sa 27:9David struck the land, and saved neither man nor woman alive, and took away the sheep, and the oxen, and the donkeys, and the camels, and the clothing; and he returned, and came to Akhish.

1Sa 27:10

1Sa 27:10Akhish said, Against whom have you made a raid today? David said, Against the South of Yehudah, and against the South of the Yerachme'eli, and against the South of the Kinim.

1Sa 27:11

1Sa 27:11David saved neither man nor woman alive, to bring them to Gat, saying, Lest they should tell of us, saying, So did David, and so has been his manner all the while he has lived in the country of the Pelishtim.

1Sa 27:12

1Sa 27:12Akhish believed David, saying, He has made his people Yisra'el utterly to abhor him; therefore he shall be my servant forever.

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1 Samuel 27 :: Hebrew Names Version (HNV)

David Flees to the Philistines

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