1 Sa:miuele 27
1 Da: ibidi da hisu amane sia: i, “Eso afae enoga Solo da na fane legemu. Na hamomu noga: idafa da Filisidini dunu ilia sogega hobeale masunu. Amasea, Solo da Isala: ili soge ganodini na hogolalu yolesimu, amola na da gaga: i dagoi ba: mu.
But David thought, “Some day Saul will capture me [if I stay around here]. So the best thing that I can do is to escape and go to the Philistia area. If I do that, Saul will stop searching for me here in Israel, and I will be safe.”
2 Amaiba: le, Da: ibidi ea 600 dadi gagui dunu ilia da amo galuwane Ga: de moilaia hina bagade A: igise (Ma: ioge egefe) ema asi.
So David and his 600 men left Israel and went to see Maoch’s son Achish, who was king of Gath [city in the Philistia area].
3 Da: ibidi, ea dunu amola ilia sosogo fi huluane da Ga: de moilaiga ha: ini fi. Da: ibidi da ea uda aduna amo Ahinoua: me, (Yeselielega fi uda) amola Gamele amoga misi uda A: biga: ile, Na: iba: le ea didalo, amo ela oule asi.
David and his men and their families started to live there in Gath, the city where king Achish lived. David’s two wives were with him—Ahinoam from Jezreel, and Nabal’s widow Abigail, from Carmel.
4 Solo da Da: ibidi Ga: de moilai bai bagadega hobea: i nababeba: le, e da Da: ibidi hogolalu yolesi.
When someone told Saul that David had run away [and was living] in Gath, he stopped searching for David.
5 Da: ibidi da A: igisema amane sia: i, “Di da na sama galea, na amo ganodini esalumusa: moilai fonobahadi nama ima. Na da ani moilai bai bagade amo ganodini esalumu da hamedei galebe.”
[One day] David said to Achish, “If you are pleased with us, give us a place in one of the small villages where we can stay. There is no need [RHQ] for us to stay in the city where you are the king.”
6 Amaiba: le, A:igise da Sigala: ge moilai ema i. Amohaganini, Yuda hina bagade dunu ilia da gebewane Sigala: ge moilai bai bagade gagulala.
[Achish liked what David suggested]. So that day Achish gave to David Ziklag [town]. As a result, Ziklag has belonged to the kings of Judah since that time.
7 Da: ibidi da Filisidini soge amo ganodini oubi 16 agoane esalu.
David [and his men] lived in the Philistia area for 16 months.
8 Amo esoga, Da: ibidi amola ea gegesu dunu ilia da Gisie, Gesi amola A: malege fi dunu (amo da amo soge ganodini gebewane esalu) ilima doagagala: lu. E da ilia sogega doagagala: lu asili, Sie soge baligili, Idibidi sogega doaga: su.
[During that time] David and his men raided the people who lived [in the areas] where the Geshur, Girzi, and Amalek people-groups lived. Those people had lived there a long time. That area extended [south] from Telam to the Shur [Desert] and to [the border of] Egypt.
9 E da dunu amola uda huluane fane lelegele dagole, amalu ilia sibi, bulamagau, dougi, ga: mele amola abula amolawane sasamogene gaguli asi. Amalu e da A: igisema buhagisu.
Whenever David’s men attacked them, they killed all the men and women, and they took all the people’s sheep and cattle and donkeys and camels, and even their clothes. Then they would bring those things back home, [and David would go to talk] to Achish.
10 Amalalu, A:igise da ema adole boba: lusu, “Di da waha habidili doagala: la asibala: ?” Amola Da: ibidi da ema e da Yuda ga (south) sogega o Yilamiele fi ilia sogega o Ginaide fi ilia esalebe sogega doagala: musa: asi, amo bu adole iasu.
Each time Achish would ask David, “Where did you go raiding today?” David [would lie to him]. Sometimes he would reply that they had gone to the southern part of Judah, and sometimes he would say that they had gone to Jerahmeel, or to the area where the Ken people-group lived.
11 Da: ibidi ea hou da, e da dunu amola uda huluanedafa fane lelegelalusu. Amalalu, dunu asili, Ga: de fi ilima Da: ibidi ea houdafa hamoi olelemu da hamedafa galu. Da: ibidi da Ga: de sogega esaloba, amo hou gebewane hamonanusu.
David’s men never brought back to Gath any man or woman who was left alive. David thought, “If [we do not kill everyone, some of] them [who are still alive] will go and tell Achish [the truth] about what we really did.” David did that all the time that he [and his men] lived in the Philistia area.
12 Be A: igise da Da: ibidi ea hou da moloidafa dawa: beba: le, hisu amane sia: i, “Hina: dunu fi Isala: ili ilia da Da: ibidi bagadewane higabeba: le, e da eso huluane na hawa: hamosa gebewane esalumu.”
So Achish believed [what] David [told him], and said to himself, “[Because of what David has done, ] his own people, the Israelis, must now hate him very much. So he will have to [stay here and] serve me forever.”
