David said in his heart, “I will now perish one day by the hand of Saul. There is nothing better for me than that I should escape into the land of the Philistines; and Saul will despair of me, to seek me any more in all the borders of Israel. So I will escape out of his hand.” Isa 40:27-31Isa 51:121Sa 16:131Sa 21:10-151Sa 23:171Sa 27:10-111Sa 28:1-2Isa 30:15-16 David arose and passed over, he and the six hundred men who were with him, to Achish the son of Maoch, king of Gath. 1Sa 21:101Sa 25:131Ki 2:39-401Sa 30:8 David 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. 1Sa 25:42-431Sa 25:18-351Sa 25:31Sa 30:31Sa 30:5 Saul was told that David had fled to Gath, so he stopped looking for him. 1Sa 26:21
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?” Gen 46:342Co 6:17 Then Achish gave him Ziklag that day: therefore Ziklag belongs to the kings of Judah to this day. Neh 11:28Jos 15:311Ch 12:11Ch 12:201Ch 4:301Sa 19:51Sa 30:11Sa 30:14 The number of the days that David lived in the country of the Philistines was a full year and four months. 1Sa 29:3
David and his men went up and raided the Geshurites, the Girzites, and the Amalekites; for those were the inhabitants of the land who were of old, on the way to Shur, even to the land of Egypt. 1Sa 15:7-8Jos 13:2Jos 13:13Jdg 1:29Jos 16:101Ch 2:231Ki 9:15-171Sa 30:1 David struck the land, and saved no man or woman alive, and took away the sheep, the cattle, the donkeys, the camels, and the clothing. Then he returned, and came to Achish. 1Sa 15:31Sa 15:7Deu 25:17-19Exo 15:22Gen 16:7Gen 25:18Jos 6:21
Achish said, “Against whom have you made a raid today?” Jdg 1:161Ch 2:251Ch 2:91Sa 30:29Gal 2:11-13Jdg 4:111Sa 15:61Sa 21:2
David said, “Against the South of Judah, against the South of the Jerahmeelites, and against the South of the Kenites.” David saved neither man nor woman alive to bring them to Gath, saying, “Lest they should tell about us, saying, ‘David did this, and this has been his way all the time he has lived in the country of the Philistines.’” 1Sa 22:22Pro 12:19Pro 29:25
Achish believed David, saying, “He has made his people Israel utterly to abhor him. Therefore he will be my servant forever.” 1Sa 13:4Gen 34:30