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11 No one was left alive to come to Gath and tell where he had really been. This happened again and again while he was living among the Philistines. 12 Achish believed David and thought that the people of Israel must hate him bitterly by now. “Now he will have to stay here and serve me forever!” the king thought.

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11 And David did not leave alive a man or a woman to bring them back to Gath, thinking,[a] “So that they will not report about us, saying, ‘David did thus and so.’” Thus was his practice all the days that he lived in the countryside of the Philistines. 12 And Achish trusted David, saying, “He has made himself utterly hated[b] among his people in Israel, and he will be my servant forever.”

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Samuel 27:11 Hebrew “saying”
  2. 1 Samuel 27:12 Literally “Stinking he stink” = “he really stinks”

11 He did not leave a man or woman alive to be brought to Gath, for he thought, “They might inform on us and say, ‘This is what David did.’” And such was his practice as long as he lived in Philistine territory. 12 Achish trusted David and said to himself, “He has become so obnoxious(A) to his people, the Israelites, that he will be my servant for life.(B)

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