1 Samuel 27
1 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.”
達味心裏想：「終有一天我會落在撒烏耳手中，倒不如逃到培肋舍特 中去，使撒烏耳絕望，再不在全以色列境內找我，我方能擺脫他的毒手」。
2 David arose and passed over, he and the six hundred men who were with him, to Achish son of Maok, the king of Gath.
達味遂帶了他那六百人，動身往加特王瑪敖客的兒子阿基士那裏去。
3 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.
達味和他的兩個妻子：依次勒耳人阿希諾罕與曾作加爾默耳人納巴耳妻子的阿彼蓋耳，他的部隊，以及他們的眷屬，同阿基士一起住在加特。
4 Saul was told that David had fled to Gath, so he looked for him no longer.
有人告訴撒烏耳，達味逃到加特去了，撒烏耳就再不去搜他。
5 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?”
達味向阿基士說：「假使我在你眼中獲得寵幸，請在鄉間城鎮裏給 戈一塊地方，叫我住在；為什麼你的僕人要同你一起住在京城內呢﹖」
6 So that day Achish gave him Ziklag; that is why Ziklag belongs to the kings of Judah to this very day.
那一天，阿基士就將漆刻拉格賜他；因此漆刻拉格直到今天還屬猶大王。
7 The number of days that David lived in the land of the Philistines was a full year and four months.
達味住在培肋舍特人地方，共計一年零四個月。
8 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.
達味帶著他的人上去，襲擊了革叔爾人、基爾齊人和阿瑪肋克人。這些民族所住的地方，是從特郎經叔爾直到埃及地。
9 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.
當達味攻擊那地方時，沒有讓那裏的男女生存，只把牛、羊、驢、駱馲和衣服搶來，帶回交給阿基士王。
10 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.”
每當阿基士間說：「今天你們襲擊了什麼地方﹖」時，達味總是答說：「襲擊了猶大的南方，刻尼人的南方」。
11 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.
達味沒有讓那裏的男女活著帶回加特來，因為達味想：「怕他們對我們不利的宣傳說：達味這樣對待了我們」。這是他住在培肋舍特地方整個時期內的作風。
12 Achish believed David, saying, “He has made his people Israel utterly abhor him; he will therefore be my servant forever.”
阿基士相信了達味，心中想：「他在自己民族以色列人中，已留下臭名，他要永久作我的奴隸了」。
