{"meta":{"source":"Prime Bible","sourceUrl":"https://primebible.com","license":"Public domain (translation text); see citation policy at /citation-policy","organization":"501(c)(3) nonprofit — EIN 41-2531951","canonicalUrl":"https://primebible.com/web/1-samuel/27","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-06-10T00:32:34.791Z"},"reference":{"translation":"WEB","book":"1 Samuel","bookSlug":"1-samuel","chapter":27,"testament":"OLD"},"navigation":{"previousChapter":26,"nextChapter":28,"totalChapters":31,"totalVerses":12},"verses":[{"verseNumber":1,"text":"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.|"},{"verseNumber":2,"text":"David arose, and passed over, he and the six hundred men who were with him, to Achish the son of Maoch, king of Gath."},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"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."},{"verseNumber":4,"text":"It was told Saul that David was fled to Gath: and he sought no more again for him."},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"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?|"},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"Then Achish gave him Ziklag that day: why Ziklag pertains to the kings of Judah to this day."},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"The number of the days that David lived in the country of the Philistines was a full year and four months."},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"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."},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"David struck the land, and saved neither man nor woman alive, and took away the sheep, and the cattle, and the donkeys, and the camels, and the clothing; and he returned, and came to Achish."},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"Achish said, |Against whom have you made a raid today?| David said, |Against the South of Judah, against the South of the Jerahmeelites, and against the South of the Kenites.|"},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"David saved neither man nor woman alive, to bring them to Gath, saying, |Lest they should tell of us, saying, 'So did David, and so has been his way all the while he has lived in the country of the Philistines.'|"},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"Achish believed David, saying, |He has made his people Israel utterly to abhor him. Therefore he shall be my servant forever.|"}],"citation":{"inline":"1 Samuel 27 (WEB)","markdown":"[1 Samuel 27](https://primebible.com/web/1-samuel/27)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* WEB. https://primebible.com/web/1-samuel/27 (accessed 2026-06-10)."}}