1 Samuel 27
1 To Daudi noparo e chunye owuon niya, “Chiengʼ moro natho e lwet Saulo. Gima ber monego atim en ni onego atony karingo adhi e piny jo-Filistia. Eka Saulo nowe manya e Israel duto kendo natony e lwete.”
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 Omiyo Daudi gi ji mia auchiel mane ni kode nowuok modhi ir Akish wuod Maok ma ruodh Gath.
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 Daudi kod joge nodak Gath ka gin gi Akish. Ngʼato ka ngʼato ne nigi joode, Daudi bende ne nigi monde ariyo: Ahinoam ma nyar Jezreel gi Abigael moa Karmel mane chi Nabal manosetho.
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 Kane onyis Saulo ni Daudi oseringo odhi Gath, ne ok ochako omanye.
Saul was told that David had fled to Gath, so he looked for him no longer.
5 Eka Daudi nowachone Akish niya, “Ka aseyudo ngʼwono e wangʼi, to miya kamoro e achiel kuom mier matindo manie piny, mondo mi adag kuno. Angʼo momiyo jatichni didag kodi e dala maduongʼ mar ruoth?”
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 Kochakore odiechiengʼno Akish nomiye Ziklag, mosebet ka osiko e lwet ruodhi Juda nyaka chil kawuono.
So that day Achish gave him Ziklag; that is why Ziklag belongs to the kings of Judah to this very day.
7 Daudi nodak e piny Filistia kuom higa achiel gi dweche angʼwen.
The number of days that David lived in the land of the Philistines was a full year and four months.
8 Koro Daudi gi joge nodhi momonjo jo-Geshur, jo-Girzi, gi jo-Amalek. Kochakore chon jogi nodak e piny mochopo Shur nyaka Misri.
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 E kinde ka kinda mane Daudi omonjo pinjego ne ok oweyo dichwo kata dhako kangima, to noyako rombe, dhok, punde, gi ngamia gi lewni. Eka nodok ir Akish.
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 Kane Akish openje niya, “Tinde ne idhi monjo kanye?” Daudi to ne jawacho niya, “Aa monjo Negev e piny Juda, kata ni Negev mar Jeramel kata ni Negev mar jo-Keni.”
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 Ne ok owe dichwo kata dhako kangima mane inyalo kel Gath, nimar noparo e chunye niya, “Ginyalo hulowa kagiwacho ni, ‘Ma e gima Daudi notimo.’” Kendo ma netimne e kinde duto mane odak e piny Filistia.
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 Akish nogeno Daudi kendo nowacho e chunye owuon niya, “Osebedo tik marach ne ogandane ma jo-Israel, omiyo obiro bedo jatichna nyaka chiengʼ.”
Achish believed David, saying, “He has made his people Israel utterly abhor him; he will therefore be my servant forever.”
