< 1 Samuels 27 >

1 Men David tenkte ved sig selv: Engang kommer jeg nu allikevel til å miste livet for Sauls hånd; jeg har ikke noget godt i vente. Jeg vil undfly til filistrenes land; så vil Saul holde op med å lete efter mig i hele Israels land, og jeg slipper ut av hans hånd.
And David said to himself, Some day death will come to me by the hand of Saul: the only thing for me to do is to get away into the land of the Philistines; then Saul will give up hope of taking me in any part of the land of Israel: and so I may be able to get away from him.
2 Så brøt David op og drog med de seks hundre mann som var hos ham, over til Akis, sønn av Maok, kongen i Gat.
So David and the six hundred men who were with him went over to Achish, the son of Maoch, king of Gath.
3 Og David blev boende hos Akis i Gat, både han og hans menn, hver med sitt hus, David med sine to hustruer, Akinoam fra Jisre'el og Abiga'il fra Karmel, Nabals hustru.
And David and his men were living with Achish at Gath; every man had his family with him, and David had his two wives, Ahinoam of Jezreel, and Abigail of Carmel, who had been the wife of Nabal.
4 Og da Saul fikk vite at David var flyktet til Gat, lette han ikke lenger efter ham.
And Saul, hearing that David had gone to Gath, went after him no longer.
5 Så sa David til Akis: Har jeg funnet nåde for dine øine, så la mig få et sted å bo på i en av landsbyene. Hvorfor skal din tjener bo hos dig i kongestaden?
Then David said to Achish, If now I have grace in your eyes, let me have a place in one of the smaller towns of your land, to be my living-place; for it is not right for your servant to be living with you in the king's town.
6 Da gav Akis ham samme dag Siklag; derfor har Siklag hørt Judas konger til helt til denne dag.
So Achish straight away gave him Ziklag: and for that reason Ziklag has been the property of the kings of Judah to this day.
7 Den tid David bodde i filistrenes land, var i alt ett år og fire måneder.
And David was living in the land of the Philistines for the space of a year and four months.
8 David og hans menn drog op og overfalt gesurittene og girsittene og amalekittene; det var de folk som fra eldgammel tid hadde bodd i det land som strekker sig bortimot Sur og helt til Egyptens land.
And David and his men went up and made attacks on the Geshurites and the Girzites and the Amalekites; for these were the people who were living in the land from Telam on the way to Shur, as far as Egypt.
9 Og hver gang David herjet landet, lot han hverken mann eller kvinne bli i live; men han tok både småfe og storfe og asener og kameler og klær og drog så tilbake, og når han så kom til Akis,
And David again and again made attacks on the land till not a man or a woman was still living; and he took away the sheep and the oxen and the asses and the camels and the clothing; and he came back to Achish.
10 og Akis spurte: I har vel ikke gjort noget innfall idag? da svarte David: Jo, i sydlandet, både blandt Judas menn og blandt jerahme'elittene og kenittene.
And every time Achish said, Where have you been fighting today? David said, Against the South of Judah and the South of the Jerahmeelites and the South of the Kenites.
11 David lot hverken mann eller kvinne bli i live eller tok dem med sig til Gat; for han tenkte: De kunde fortelle om oss og si: Så og så har David gjort. Således bar han sig at i all den tid han bodde i filistrenes land.
Not one living man or woman did David ever take back with him to Gath, fearing that they might give an account of what had taken place, and say, This is what David did, and so has he been doing all the time while he has been living in the land of the Philistines.
12 Og Akis trodde David og tenkte: Han har gjort sig forhatt blandt Israel, sitt folk, og nu kommer han til å være min tjener for all tid.
And Achish had belief in what David said, saying, He has made himself hated by all his people Israel, and so he will be my servant for ever.

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