1 Samuel 27
1 David dijo en su corazón: “Ahora pereceré un día por la mano de Saúl. No hay nada mejor para mí que escapar a la tierra de los filisteos; y Saúl se desesperará por buscarme más en todos los límites de Israel. Así escaparé de su mano”.
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.”
2 David se levantó y pasó, él y los seiscientos hombres que estaban con él, a Aquis hijo de Maoc, rey de Gat.
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].
3 David vivía con Aquis en Gat, él y sus hombres, cada uno con su casa, incluso David con sus dos esposas, Ahinoam la jezreelita y Abigail la carmelita, esposa de Nabal.
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.
4 Cuando Saúl supo que David había huido a Gat, dejó de buscarlo.
When someone told Saul that David had run away [and was living] in Gath, he stopped searching for David.
5 David dijo a Aquis: “Si ahora he hallado gracia ante tus ojos, que me den un lugar en una de las ciudades del país, para que habite allí. Porque, ¿por qué habría de habitar tu siervo en la ciudad real contigo?”.
[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.”
6 Entonces Aquis le dio aquel día Siclag; por eso Siclag pertenece a los reyes de Judá hasta el día de hoy.
[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.
7 El número de días que David vivió en el país de los filisteos fue un año completo y cuatro meses.
David [and his men] lived in the Philistia area for 16 months.
8 David y sus hombres subieron y asaltaron a los guesuritas, a los girzitas y a los amalecitas, pues esos eran los habitantes de la tierra de antaño, en el camino hacia Shur, hasta la tierra de Egipto.
[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.
9 David atacó la tierra y no salvó a ningún hombre ni a ninguna mujer con vida, y se llevó las ovejas, el ganado, los asnos, los camellos y la ropa. Luego regresó y llegó a Aquis.
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.
10 Aquis dijo: “¿Contra quién has hecho hoy una incursión?” David dijo: “Contra el sur de Judá, contra el sur de los jeraelitas y contra el sur de los ceneos”.
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.
11 David no salvó a ningún hombre ni a ninguna mujer con vida para llevarlos a Gat, diciendo: “No sea que cuenten de nosotros, diciendo: “David hizo esto, y este ha sido su camino todo el tiempo que ha vivido en el país de los filisteos.””
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.
12 Aquis creyó a David, diciendo: “Ha hecho que su pueblo Israel lo aborrezca por completo. Por eso será mi siervo para siempre”.
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.”
