1 Samuel 27:5-12

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

6 So Achish gave him Ziklag that day; therefore ¹Ziklag has belonged to the kings of Judah to this day.

7 The number of days that David lived in the country of the Philistines was ²a year and four months.

8 Now David and his men went up and raided ³the Geshurites and the Girzites and ⁴the Amalekites; for they were the inhabitants of the land from ancient times, as you come to ⁵Shur even as far as the land of Egypt.

9 David attacked the land and did not leave a man or a woman alive, and he ⁶took away the sheep, the cattle, the donkeys, the camels, and the clothing. Then he returned and came to Achish.

10 Now Achish said, "Where have you ⁷made a raid today?" And David said, "Against the Negev of Judah and against the Negev of ⁸the Jerahmeelites and against the Negev of ⁹the Kenites."

11 David did not leave a man or a woman alive to bring to Gath, saying, "Otherwise they will tell about us, saying, 'So has David done and so has been his practice all the time he has lived in the country of the Philistines.' "

12 So Achish believed David, saying, "He has surely made himself odious among his people Israel; therefore he will become my servant forever."

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1 Samuel 27:5-12 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO FIRST SAMUEL 27

David, fearing he should perish by the hand of Saul at one time or another, went into the land of the Philistines, which Saul hearing of, sought no more after him, 1Sa 27:1-4; and finding favour in the eyes of the king of Gath, desired a place in his country might be given him to reside in; and accordingly Ziklag was given him, 1Sa 27:5-7; from whence he made excursions into the land of the Amalekites, and others, and utterly destroyed them; but imposed on the king of Gath, pretending he had made his road into the southern parts of Judah, 1Sa 27:8-12.

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

Cross References 9

1. Joshua 15:31; Joshua 19:5; Nehemiah 11:28
2. 1 Samuel 29:3
3. Joshua 13:2, 13
4. Exodus 17:8; 1 Samuel 15:7, 8
5. Exodus 15:22
6. 1 Samuel 15:3; Job 1:3
7. 1 Samuel 23:27
8. 1 Samuel 30:29; 1 Chronicles 2:9, 25
9. Judges 1:16; Judges 4:11

Footnotes 4

[a]. Lit "smote"
[b]. I.e. South country
[c]. I.e. South country
[d]. I.e. South country

1 Samuel 27:5-12

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1 Samuel 27:5-12 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO FIRST SAMUEL 27

Cross References 9

Footnotes 4