Good News [1976], GOOD NEWS BIBLE WITH DEUTEROCANONICALS / APOCRYPHA Today's English Version (AMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETY, New York) [word count] [B15000].
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David among the Philistines
1 David said to himself, “One
of these days Saul will kill
me. The best thing for me to do is to
escape to Philistia. Then Saul will
give up looking for me in Israel, and
I will be safe.”
2 So David and his six
hundred men went over at once to
Achish son of Maoch, king of Gath.
3 David and his men settled there in
Gath with their families. David had
his two wives with him, Ahinoam
from Jezreel, and Abigail, Nabal's
widow, from Carmel.
4 When Saul
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heard that David had fled to Gath,
he gave up trying to find him.
5 David said to Achish, “If you are
my friend, let me have a small town
to live in. There is no need, sir, for
me to live with you in the capital
city.”
6 So Achish gave him the town
of Ziklag, and for this reason Ziklag
has belonged to the kings of Judah
ever since.
7 David lived in Philistia
for sixteen months.
8 During that time David and his
men would attack the people of Geshur,
Girzi, and Amalek, who had
been living in the region a very long
time. He would raid their land as far
as Shur, all the way down to Egypt,
9 killing all the men and women and
taking the sheep, cattle, donkeys,
camels, and even the clothes. Then
he would come back to Achish,
10 who would ask him, “Where did
you go on a raid this time?” and David
would tell him that he had gone
to the southern part of Judah or to
the territory of the tribe of Jerahmeel
or to the territory where the
Kenites lived.
11 David would kill
everyone, men and women, so that
no one could go back to Gath and
report what he and his men had
really done. This is what David did
the whole time he lived in Philistia.
12 But Achish trusted David and said
to himself, “He is hated so much by
his own people the Israelites that he
will have to serve me all his life.”
Good News [1976], GOOD NEWS BIBLE WITH DEUTEROCANONICALS / APOCRYPHA Today's English Version (AMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETY, New York) [word count] [B15000].
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