1 Samuel 27
1 and to say David to(wards) heart his now to snatch day one in/on/with hand: power Saul nothing to/for me pleasant for to escape to escape to(wards) land: country/planet Philistine and to despair from me Saul to/for to seek me still in/on/with all border: boundary Israel and to escape from hand: power his
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 and to arise: rise David and to pass he/she/it and six hundred man which with him to(wards) Achish son: child Maoch king 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 and to dwell David with Achish in/on/with Gath he/she/it and human his man: anyone and house: household his David and two woman: wife his Ahinoam [the] Jezreel and Abigail woman: wife Nabal [the] Carmelite
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 and to tell to/for Saul for to flee David Gath and not (to add: again *Q(K)*) still to/for to seek him
When someone told Saul that David had run away [and was living] in Gath, he stopped searching for David.
5 and to say David to(wards) Achish if please to find favor in/on/with eye: appearance your to give: give to/for me place in/on/with one city [the] land: country and to dwell there and to/for what? to dwell servant/slave your in/on/with city [the] kingdom with you
[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 and to give: give to/for him Achish in/on/with day: today [the] he/she/it [obj] Ziklag to/for so to be Ziklag to/for king Judah till [the] day: today [the] this
[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 and to be number [the] day which to dwell David in/on/with land: country Philistine day: year and four month
David [and his men] lived in the Philistia area for 16 months.
8 and to ascend: rise David and human his and to strip to(wards) [the] Geshurite (and [the] Girzite *Q(K)*) and [the] Amalekite for they(fem.) to dwell [the] land: country/planet which from forever: antiquity to come (in): towards you Shur [to] and till land: country/planet Egypt
[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 and to smite David [obj] [the] land: country/planet and not to live man and woman and to take: take flock and cattle and donkey and camel and garment and to return: return and to come (in): come to(wards) Achish
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 and to say Achish to(wards) to strip [the] day and to say David upon Negeb Judah and upon Negeb [the] Jerahmeelite and to(wards) Negeb [the] Kenite
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 and man and woman not to live David to/for to come (in): bring Gath to/for to say lest to tell upon us to/for to say thus to make: do David and thus justice: custom his all [the] day which to dwell in/on/with land: country Philistine
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 and be faithful Achish in/on/with David to/for to say to stink to stink in/on/with people his in/on/with Israel and to be to/for me to/for servant/slave forever: enduring
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.”
