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1 Samuel 27:5

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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?”

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1 Samuel 27:5 in other translations

And David said unto Achish, If now I have found favor in thine eyes, let them give me a place in one of the cities in the country, that I may dwell there: for why should thy servant dwell in the royal city with thee?

1 Samuel 27:5 · American Standard Version

1 Samuel 27:5 in context

  1. 3David 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.
  2. 4Saul was told that David had fled to Gath: and he sought no more again for him.
  3. 5David 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?”
  4. 6Then Achish gave him Ziklag that day: therefore Ziklag belongs to the kings of Judah to this day.
  5. 7The number of the days that David lived in the country of the Philistines was a full year and four months.