1 Samuel 27:1-2

Lexham English Bible

David Returns to Achish

27 Then David thought to himself,^[a] “Now I will perish one day by the hand of Saul! There is nothing better for me but that I must certainly escape to the land of the Philistines. Then Saul will desist from searching for me further in all of the territories of Israel, and so I will escape from his hand.” ² So David got up and crossed over, he and the six hundred men who were with him, to Achish the son of Maoch, the king of Gath.