1 Samuel 27:12

12 Und Achis glaubte David und sprach: Er hat sich bei seinem Volke, bei Israel, ganz stinkend gemacht, und er wird mir zum Knechte sein ewiglich.

1 Samuel 27:12 Meaning and Commentary

1 Samuel 27:12

And Achish believed David
As he would have him understand his story; imposing upon him by ambiguous terms, insinuating he had been against the southern parts of Judah, when he had been against foreign nations that lay to the south of Judah:

saying, he hath made his people Israel utterly to abhor him;
they shall never forgive him the destruction of their cities, and the inhabitants of them, and the plunder of their goods and cattle; his name will be had in the utmost detestation and abhorrence, and he must never return thither any more:

therefore he shall be my servant for ever:
would be glad to continue with him as a servant, and be obliged to serve him faithfully and truly, since his own people, and even those of his own tribe, would never more receive him; it being, as he understood it, the south of Judah that he had been plundering.

1 Samuel 27:12 In-Context

10 Und sprach Achis: Habt ihr heute keinen Einfall gemacht? so sprach David: In den Süden von Juda, oder: In den Süden der Jerachmeeliter! oder: In den Süden der Keniter.

11 Und David ließ weder Mann noch Weib am Leben, um sie nach Gath zu bringen, indem er sagte: Daß sie nicht über uns berichten und sprechen: So hat David getan. Und so war seine Weise alle die Tage, die er im Gefilde der Philister wohnte.

12 Und Achis glaubte David und sprach: Er hat sich bei seinem Volke, bei Israel, ganz stinkend gemacht, und er wird mir zum Knechte sein ewiglich.