1 Samuel 27
1 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.”
Devit ni a lungthung hoi, hnin hnin touh teh Sawl kut hoi kadout han doeh, Filistinnaw koe ka yawng hoehpawiteh kai hanelah ahawinae awm mahoeh. Sawl ni Isarel ram thung pueng na tawng e heh a lungpout vaiteh, a kut dawk hoi ka hlout han telah ati.
2 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].
Hahoi Devit teh a thaw teh, ama hoi ateng kaawm e a tami 600 touh hoi Maok capa Gath siangpahrang Akhish koevah a cei.
3 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.
Devit teh ama hoi a yu roi Jezreel tami Ahinoam hoi Nabal yu Karmel tami Abigail hoi Gath kho Akhish koe a cei awh.
4 When someone told Saul that David had run away [and was living] in Gath, he stopped searching for David.
Gath vah Devit a yawng toe tie Sawl koe a dei pouh awh toteh, bout tawng hoeh toe.
5 [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.”
Devit ni Akhish koevah na minhmai kahawi ka hmawt pawiteh, na ram thung kho buet touh dawk kho ka sak thai nahanelah, o nahane na poe haw. Bangkongmaw na san ni siangpahrang khopui dawk nang koe kho khuet ka sak thai han vaw telah atipouh.
6 [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.
Hat toteh, hat hnin râw vah Akhish ni, Ziklag kho a poe. Hatdawkvah Ziklag teh atu totouh Judah ram siangpahrangnaw e lah ao.
7 David [and his men] lived in the Philistia area for 16 months.
Filistin ram thung Devit teh kum touh hoi thapa yung pali touh ao.
8 [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.
Devit hoi a taminaw ni a takhang awh teh, Geshur taminaw hoi Girzi taminaw hoi Amaleknaw hah a tuk awh. Hote miphunnaw teh Shur hoi Zur ram koe lah Izip ram totouh pou kâkuen e doeh.
9 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.
Devit ni taran a tuk tangkuem napui tongpa a hlung e awm boihoeh. Tu, La, Maito, Kalauk, hoi khohnanaw a la pouh teh a bankhai, hahoi Akhish koe a cei awh.
10 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.
Akhish ni, sahnin nâlaenaw maw na tuk awh telah atipouh. Devit ni, Judah akalah, Jerahmeel taminaw, akalae ram hoi Kennaw akalae ramnaw doeh atipouh.
11 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.
Filistin ram ao nah yunglam, Devit ni hettelah pou a sak tet langvaih a titeh, Devit ni napui tongpa Gath kho ceikhai hanelah hlung boihoeh.
12 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.”
Akhish ni, Devit ni dei e hah a yuem teh, a tami Isarelnaw abuemlah hoi ama kapanuekkung lah a coung sak. Hatdawkvah, kai koe ka san lah pou na o han atipouh.
