27:1 And David 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 speedily escape into the land of the Pelishtim; and Sha'ul shall despair of me, to seek me any more in any coast of Yisrael: so shall I escape out of his hand.
27:2 And David arose, and he passed over with the six hundred men that [were] with him unto Achish, Ben Maoch, melekh of Gat.
27:3 And David dwelt with Achish at Gat, he and his men, every man with his household, [even] David with his two wives, Achinoam the Yizre'elitess, and Avi-Gayil the Karmelitess, Naval's wife.
27:4 And it was told Sha'ul that David was fled to Gat: and he sought no more again for him.
27:5 And David said unto Achish, If I have now found grace in thine eyes, let them give me a place in some town in the country, that I may dwell there: for why should thy eved dwell in the royal city with thee?
27:6 Then Achish gave him Ziklag that day: wherefore Ziklag pertaineth unto the kings of Yehudah unto this day.
27:7 And the time that David dwelt in the country of the Pelishtim was a full year and four months.
27:8 And David and his men went up, and invaded the Geshurites, and the Gezrites, and the Amalekites: for those [nations were] of old the inhabitants of the land, as thou goest to Shur, even unto the land of Mitzrayim.
27:9 And 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.
27:10 And Achish said, Whither have ye made a road to day? And David said, Against the south of Yehudah, and against the south of the Yarcheme'eli, and against the south of the Kenites.
27:11 And David saved neither man nor woman alive, to bring [tidings] to Gat, saying, Lest they should tell on us, saying, So did David, and so [will be] his manner all the while he dwelleth in the country of the Pelishtim.
27:12 And Achish believed David, saying, He hath made his people Yisrael utterly to abhor him; therefore he shall be my eved for ever.