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!"
David said in his heart, “I will now perish one day by Saul's hand; there is nothing better for me than to escape into the land of the Philistines; Saul will give up looking for me any more within all the borders of Israel; in this way I will escape out of his hand.”
2 David brød da op og drog med sine 600 Mænd over til Maoks Søn, Kong Akisj af Gat;
David arose and passed over, he and the six hundred men who were with him, to Achish son of Maok, the 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.
David lived with Achish at Gath, he and his men, each man with his own household, and David with his two wives, Ahinoam the Jezreelite woman, and Abigail the Carmelite woman, Nabal's wife.
4 Da Saul fik at vide, at David var flygtet til Gaf, holdt han op at søge efter ham.
Saul was told that David had fled to Gath, so he looked for 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?"
David said to Achish, “If I have found favor in your eyes, let them give me a place in one of the cities in the country, that I may live there. Why should your servant live in the royal city with you?”
6 Akisj lod ham da med det samme få Ziklag; og derfor tilhører Ziklag endnu den Dag i Dag Judas Konger.
So that day Achish gave him Ziklag; that is why Ziklag belongs to the kings of Judah to this very day.
7 Den Tid, David boede i Filisternes Land, udgjorde et År og fire Måneder.
The number of days that David lived in the land of the Philistines was a full 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;
David and his men attacked various places, making raids on the Geshurites, the Girzites, and the Amalekites; for those nations were the inhabitants of the land, as you go to Shur, as far as the land of Egypt. They had been living there in the land from ancient times.
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,
David attacked the land and saved neither man nor woman alive; he took away the sheep, the oxen, the donkeys, the camels, and the clothing; he would return and come again 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!"
Achish would say, “Against whom have you made a raid today?” David would answer, “Against the south of Judah,” or “Against the south of the Jerahmeelites,” or “Against 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.
David would keep neither man nor woman alive to bring them to Gath, saying, “So that they cannot say about us, 'David did such and such.'” This was what he did all the while he was living in the country 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!"
Achish believed David, saying, “He has made his people Israel utterly abhor him; he will therefore be my servant forever.”
