1 Samuel 27
1 Men David sagde til sig selv: "Jeg falder dog en skønne Dag for Sauls Hånd. Jeg har ingen anden udvej end at søge Tilflugt i Filisternes Land; så opgiver Saul at søge efter mig nogetsteds i Israels Land, og jeg er uden for hans Rækkevidde!"
And David said to himself, Some day death will come to me by the hand of Saul: the only thing for me to do is to get away into the land of the Philistines; then Saul will give up hope of taking me in any part of the land of Israel: and so I may be able to get away from him.
2 David brød da op og drog med sine 600 Mænd over til Maoks Søn, Kong Akisj af Gat;
So David and the six hundred men who were with him went over to Achish, the son of Maoch, king of Gath.
3 og David boede hos Akisj i Gat tillige med sine Mænd, som havde deres Familier med, ligesom David havde sine to Hustruer med, Ahinoam fra Jizre'el og Abigajil, Karmeliten Nabals Hustru.
And David and his men were living with Achish at Gath; every man had his family with him, and David had his two wives, Ahinoam of Jezreel, and Abigail of Carmel, who had been the wife of Nabal.
4 Da Saul fik at vide, at David var flygtet til Gaf, holdt han op at søge efter ham.
And Saul, hearing that David had gone to Gath, went after him no longer.
5 Men David sagde til Akisj: "Hvis jeg har fundet Nåde for dine Øjne, lad mig så få et Sted at bo i en af Byerne ude i Landet, thi hvorfor skal din Træl bo hos dig i Hovedstaden?"
Then David said to Achish, If now I have grace in your eyes, let me have a place in one of the smaller towns of your land, to be my living-place; for it is not right for your servant to be living with you in the king's town.
6 Akisj lod ham da med det samme få Ziklag; og derfor tilhører Ziklag endnu den Dag i Dag Judas Konger.
So Achish straight away gave him Ziklag: and for that reason Ziklag has been the property of the kings of Judah to this day.
7 Den Tid, David boede i Filisternes Land, udgjorde et År og fire Måneder.
And David was living in the land of the Philistines for the space of a year and four months.
8 Og David og hans Mænd drog op og plyndrede hos Gesjuriterne, Gizriterne og Amalekiterne; thi de boede i Landet fra Telam hen imod Sjur og hen til Ægypten;
And David and his men went up and made attacks on the Geshurites and the Girzites and the Amalekites; for these were the people who were living in the land from Telam on the way to Shur, as far as Egypt.
9 og når David plyndrede Landet, lod han hverken Mænd eller Kvinder blive i Live, men Småkvæg, Hornkvæg, Æsler, Kameler og Klæder tog han med; når han så vendte tilbage og kom til Akisj,
And David again and again made attacks on the land till not a man or a woman was still living; and he took away the sheep and the oxen and the asses and the camels and the clothing; and he came back to Achish.
10 og han spurgte: "Hvor hærgede I denne Gang?" svarede David: "Idet judæiske Sydland!" eller: "I det jerame'elitiske Sydland!" eller: "I det kenitiske Sydland!"
And every time Achish said, Where have you been fighting today? David said, Against the South of Judah and the South of the Jerahmeelites and the South of the Kenites.
11 David lod ingen Mand eller Kvinde blive i Live for ikke at måtte tage dem med til Gat; thi han tænkte: "De kunde røbe os og sige: Det og det har David gjort!" Således bar han sig ad, al den Tid han opholdt sig i Filisternes Land.
Not one living man or woman did David ever take back with him to Gath, fearing that they might give an account of what had taken place, and say, This is what David did, and so has he been doing all the time while he has been living in the land of the Philistines.
12 Derfor fik Akisj Tillid til David, idet han tænkte: "Han har gjort sig grundig forhadt hos sit Folk Israel; han vil tjene mig for stedse!"
And Achish had belief in what David said, saying, He has made himself hated by all his people Israel, and so he will be my servant for ever.
