⁵ A la vue du camp des Philistins, Saül fut saisi de crainte, et un violent tremblement s'empara de son coeur.

¹ David said in his heart, "I shall now perish one day by the hand of Saul. There is nothing better for me than that I should escape into the land of the Philistines; and Saul will despair of me, to seek me any more in all the borders of Israel. So shall I escape out of his hand."

² David arose, and passed over, he and the six hundred men who were with him, to Achish the son of Maoch, king of Gath.

³ David lived with Achish at Gath, he and his men, every man with his household, even David with his two wives, Ahinoam the Jezreelitess, and Abigail the Carmelitess, Nabal's wife.

⁴ It was told Saul that David was fled to Gath: and he sought no more again for him.

⁵ David said to Achish, "If now I have found favor in your eyes, let them give me a place in one of the cities in the country, that I may dwell there. For why should your servant dwell in the royal city with you?"

⁶ Then Achish gave him Ziklag that day: why Ziklag pertains to the kings of Judah to this day.

⁷ The number of the days that David lived in the country of the Philistines was a full year and four months.

⁸ David and his men went up, and made a raid on the Geshurites, and the Girzites, and the Amalekites; for those [nations] were the inhabitants of the land, who were of old, as you go to Shur, even to the land of Egypt.