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.”
Disse porém David no seu coração: Ora ainda algum dia perecerei pela mão de Saul; não ha coisa melhor para mim do que escapar apressadamente para a terra dos philisteos, 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 David arose and passed over, he and the six hundred men who were with him, to Achish son of Maok, the king of Gath.
Então David se levantou, e passou com os seiscentos homens que com elle estavam a Achis, filho de Maoch, rei de Gath.
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.
E David ficou com Achis em Gath, elle 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 Saul was told that David had fled to Gath, so he looked for him no longer.
E, sendo Saul avisado que David tinha fugido para Gath, não cuidou mais em o buscar.
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?”
E disse David a Achis: Se eu tenho achado graça em teus olhos, dá-me logar n'uma das cidades da terra, para que ali habite: pois por que razão habitaria o teu servo comtigo na cidade real?
6 So that day Achish gave him Ziklag; that is why Ziklag belongs to the kings of Judah to this very day.
Então lhe deu Achis n'aquelle dia a cidade de Siclag: (pelo que Siclag pertence aos reis de Judah, até ao dia de hoje.)
7 The number of days that David lived in the land of the Philistines was a full year and four months.
E foi o numero dos dias, que David habitou na terra dos philisteos, um anno e quatro mezes.
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.
E subia David com os seus homens, e deram sobre os gesuritas, e os gersitas, e os amalekitas; porque antigamente foram estes os moradores da terra desde como quem vae para Sur até á terra do Egypto.
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.
E David feria aquella terra, e não dava vida nem a homem nem a mulher, e tomava ovelhas, e vaccas, e jumentos, e camelos, e vestidos; e voltava, e vinha a Achis.
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.”
E dizendo Achis: Sobre onde déstes hoje? David dizia: Sobre o sul de Judah, e sobre o sul dos jerahmeleos, e sobre o sul dos keneos.
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.
E David não dava vida nem a homem nem a mulher, para trazel-os 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 philisteos.
12 Achish believed David, saying, “He has made his people Israel utterly abhor him; he will therefore be my servant forever.”
E Achis se confiava de David, dizendo: Fez-se elle por certo aborrecivel para com o seu povo em Israel; pelo que me será por servo para sempre.
