1 Samuel 27
1 Og David sagde i sit Hjerte: Jeg omkommer nu en Dag ved Sauls Haand; intet er mig bedre, end at jeg flyr til Filisternes Land, at Saul kan opgive at søge efter mig ydermere i alt Israels Landemærke, og at jeg kan undgaa hans Haand.
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 Da gjorde David sig rede og gik over, han og seks Hundrede Mand, som vare med ham, til Akis, Maoks Søn, Kongen i Gath.
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 Og David boede hos Akis i Gath, han og hans Mænd, hver med sit Hus; David og hans to Hustruer: Ahinoam, den Jisreelitiske, og Abigail, Nabals Hustru, den Karmelitiske.
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 Og det blev Saul tilkendegivet, at David var flyet til Gath; da blev han ikke ydermere ved at søge efter ham.
When someone told Saul that David had run away [and was living] in Gath, he stopped searching for David.
5 Og David sagde til Akis: Kære, dersom jeg har fundet Naade for dine Øjne, saa lad dem give mig et Sted i een af Byerne i Landet, at jeg maa blive der; thi hvorfor skal din Tjener bo i den kongelige Stad hos dig?
[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 Da gav Akis ham Ziklag samme Dag; derfor er Ziklag Judas Kongers indtil denne Dag.
[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 Og Tallet paa de Dage, i hvilke David boede i Filisternes Land, var eet Aar og fire Maaneder.
David [and his men] lived in the Philistia area for 16 months.
8 Saa drog David og hans Mænd op, og de overfaldt Gesuriterne og Girsiterne og Amalekiterne; thi disse boede i Landet, som hørte dem til fra gammel Tid, i Retningen af Schur og indtil Ægyptens Land.
[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 Og David slog Landet og lod hverken Mand eller Kvinde leve og tog smaat Kvæg og stort Kvæg og Asener og Kameler og Klæder og vendte tilbage til Akis.
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 Naar Akis sagde: Hvor faldt I ind i Dag? da sagde David: Imod Sønden i Juda og imod Sønden mod Jerahmeeliterne og imod Sønden mod Keniterne.
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 Og David lod ikke en Mand eller Kvinde leve, saa at han førte dem til Gath; thi han sagde: At de ikke skulle forkynde noget imod os og sige: Saaledes gjorde David; og saaledes var hans Vis alle de Dage, han boede i Filisternes Land.
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 Derfor troede Akis David og sagde: Han har gjort sig forhadt for sit Folk, for Israel, derfor skal han være min Tjener evindelig.
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.”
