撒母耳記上 27
1 達味心裏想：「終有一天我會落在撒烏耳手中，倒不如逃到培肋舍特 中去，使撒烏耳絕望，再不在全以色列境內找我，我方能擺脫他的毒手」。
But David said to himself, “One of these days Saul is going to get me. I think I'd better run away to the land of the Philistines. Then Saul will give up looking for me all over Israel and he won't catch me.”
2 達味遂帶了他那六百人，動身往加特王瑪敖客的兒子阿基士那裏去。
So David and the six hundred men with him set off, crossed the border, and went to Achish, son of Maoch, the king of Gath.
3 達味和他的兩個妻子：依次勒耳人阿希諾罕與曾作加爾默耳人納巴耳妻子的阿彼蓋耳，他的部隊，以及他們的眷屬，同阿基士一起住在加特。
David and his men settled down with Achish in Gath. All the men had their families with them, and David had his two wives, Ahinoam from Jezreel and Abigail from Carmel, Nabal's widow.
4 有人告訴撒烏耳，達味逃到加特去了，撒烏耳就再不去搜他。
When Saul found out that David had run away to Gath, he didn't go on looking for him.
5 達味向阿基士說：「假使我在你眼中獲得寵幸，請在鄉間城鎮裏給 戈一塊地方，叫我住在；為什麼你的僕人要同你一起住在京城內呢﹖」
David said to Achish, “Please do me a favor: assign me somewhere in one of the towns in the countryside so I can live there. I, your servant, don't really deserve to live in the royal city with you.”
6 那一天，阿基士就將漆刻拉格賜他；因此漆刻拉格直到今天還屬猶大王。
Achish gave him Ziklag right away, and the town still belongs to the kings of Judah to this day.
7 達味住在培肋舍特人地方，共計一年零四個月。
David lived in the country of the Philistines for a year and four months.
8 達味帶著他的人上去，襲擊了革叔爾人、基爾齊人和阿瑪肋克人。這些民族所住的地方，是從特郎經叔爾直到埃及地。
During that time David and his men were raiding the Geshurites, the Girzites, and the Amalekites. These people had lived in the land as far as Shur and Egypt from ancient times.
9 當達味攻擊那地方時，沒有讓那裏的男女生存，只把牛、羊、驢、駱馲和衣服搶來，帶回交給阿基士王。
When David attacked a place, he did not leave anybody alive. He took the flocks and herds, the donkeys, camels, and clothing. Then he would go back to Achish.
10 每當阿基士間說：「今天你們襲擊了什麼地方﹖」時，達味總是答說：「襲擊了猶大的南方，刻尼人的南方」。
When Achish asked him, “Where have you been raiding today?” David would reply, “In the desert of Judah,” or “the desert of Jerahmeel,” or “the desert of the Kenites.”
11 達味沒有讓那裏的男女活著帶回加特來，因為達味想：「怕他們對我們不利的宣傳說：達味這樣對待了我們」。這是他住在培肋舍特地方整個時期內的作風。
David didn't leave anybody alive that could come to Gath because he thought, “They might tell on us and say, ‘David did this.’” This is what he did all the time he lived in the country of the Philistines.
12 阿基士相信了達味，心中想：「他在自己民族以色列人中，已留下臭名，他要永久作我的奴隸了」。
Achish trusted David, and said to himself, “He's made himself so offensive to his people the Israelites that he'll have to serve me forever.”
