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.”
Disse porém David no seu coração: Ora ainda algum dia perecerei pela mão de Saul; não há coisa melhor para mim do que escapar apressadamente para a terra dos philisteus, para que Saul perca a esperança de mim, e cesse de me buscar por todos os termos de Israel; e assim escaparei da sua mão.
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].
Então David se levantou, e passou com os seiscentos homens que com ele estavam a Achis, filho de Maoch, rei de Gath.
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.
E David ficou com Achis em Gath, ele e os seus homens, cada um com a sua casa: David com ambas as suas mulheres, Achinoam, a jizreelita, e Abigail, a mulher de Nabal, o carmelita.
4 When someone told Saul that David had run away [and was living] in Gath, he stopped searching for David.
E, sendo Saul avisado que David tinha fugido para Gath, não cuidou mais em o buscar.
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.”
E disse David a Achis: Se eu tenho achado graça em teus olhos, dá-me lugar numa das cidades da terra, para que ali habite: pois por que razão habitaria o teu servo contigo na cidade real?
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.
Então lhe deu Achis naquele dia a cidade de Siclag: (pelo que Siclag pertence aos reis de Judá, até ao dia de hoje.)
7 David [and his men] lived in the Philistia area for 16 months.
E foi o número dos dias, que David habitou na terra dos philisteus, um ano e quatro meses.
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.
E subia David com os seus homens, e deram sobre os gesuritas, e os gersitas, e os amalequitas; porque antigamente foram estes os moradores da terra desde como quem vai para Sur até à terra do Egito.
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.
E David feria aquela terra, e não dava vida nem a homem nem a mulher, e tomava ovelhas, e vacas, e jumentos, e camelos, e vestidos; e voltava, e vinha a Achis.
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.
E dizendo Achis: Sobre onde destes hoje? David dizia: Sobre o sul de Judá, e sobre o sul dos jerahmeleus, e sobre o sul dos keneos.
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.
E David não dava vida nem a homem nem a mulher, para traze-los a Gath, dizendo: Para que porventura não nos denunciem, dizendo: Assim David o fazia. E este era o seu costume por todos os dias que habitou na terra dos philisteus.
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.”
E Achis se confiava de David, dizendo: Fez-se ele por certo aborrecível para com o seu povo em Israel; pelo que me será por servo para sempre.
