1 Samuel 27:12

12 Darum glaubte Achis David und gedachte: Er hat sich stinkend gemacht vor seinem Volk Israel, darum soll er immer mein Knecht sein.

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 Wenn dann Achis sprach: Seid ihr heute nicht eingefallen? so sprach David: In das Mittagsland Juda's und in das Mittagsland der Jerahmeeliter und in das Mittagsland der Keniter.

11 David aber ließ weder Mann noch Weib lebendig gen Gath kommen und gedachte: Sie möchten wider uns reden und schwätzen. Also tat David, und das war seine Weise, solange er wohnte in der Philister Lande.

12 Darum glaubte Achis David und gedachte: Er hat sich stinkend gemacht vor seinem Volk Israel, darum soll er immer mein Knecht sein.