1 Samyèl 27
1 David di nan kè l': -Yon jou konsa Sayil ap touye m'. L'a pi bon pou mwen si m' sove al kache nan peyi Filisti a. Konsa, Sayil va sispann mache chache m' nan tout peyi pèp Izrayèl la. p'ap gen danje pou mwen ankò.
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.”
2 David leve ansanm ak sisan (600) moun pa l' yo, y' ale kay Akich, pitit gason Maòk la, ki te wa lavil Gat.
David arose and passed over, he and the six hundred men who were with him, to Achish son of Maok, the king of Gath.
3 David ak mesye l' yo rete ak Akich lavil Gat ak tout fanmi yo. David te gen de madanm ak li: Akinoam, yon fanm lavil Jizreyèl ak Abigayèl, madan defen Nabal, moun lavil Kamèl.
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.
4 Lè Sayil vin tande David te kouri al kache lavil Gat, li sispann mache chache l' pou mete men sou li.
Saul was told that David had fled to Gath, so he looked for him no longer.
5 David di Akich konsa: -Si ou se zanmi m' vre, ban m' yon ti plas nan yonn nan bouk andeyò yo pou m' rete. Pa gen rezon, monwa, pou m' rete viv ansanm avè ou nan kapital la.
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?”
6 Se konsa, jou sa a, Akich ba li lavil Ziklag. Se poutèt sa, depi jou sa a, lavil Ziklag toujou rete pou wa peyi Jida yo.
So that day Achish gave him Ziklag; that is why Ziklag belongs to the kings of Judah to this very day.
7 David pase ennan kat mwa ap viv nan peyi moun Filisti yo.
The number of days that David lived in the land of the Philistines was a full year and four months.
8 Tanzantan, David ak mesye l' yo te konn pati al atake moun Jechou yo, moun Jizi yo ak moun Amalèk yo jouk lakay yo. Depi tout tan se pèp sa yo ki te rete nan zòn ki soti depi lavil Telayim, nan direksyon lavil Chou rive jouk peyi Lejip.
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.
9 Se konsa, David te dechèpiye tout peyi a, li touye fanm kou gason. Li pran mouton moun yo, bèf yo, bourik yo, chamo yo, ata rad yo. Lèfini, li tounen al jwenn Akich.
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.
10 Lè Akich mande l': -Ki kote ou t' al demele ou jòdi a? David te kouri reponn li se nan zòn Negèv nan peyi Jida a, osinon nan zòn sid peyi moun Jerakmeyèl yo, ou ankò nan zòn sid teritwa moun Kayen yo.
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.”
11 Men David te toujou touye tout moun, fanm kou gason, paske li t'ap di nan kè l' konsa pesonn p'ap ka al di moun lavil Gat yo sa li te fè yo. Se sa David t'ap mache fè pandan tout tan li pase nan peyi Filisti a.
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.
12 Akich menm te fè David konfyans. Li t'ap di nan kè l': -Msye tèlman fè moun pèp Izrayèl yo rayi l', l'ap blije rete pase tout rès lavi l' ap sèvi m'.
Achish believed David, saying, “He has made his people Israel utterly abhor him; he will therefore be my servant forever.”
