2 So David set out with his 600 men and went to Achish son of Maoch, the king of Gath.
3 David and his men stayed with Achish in Gath. Each man had his family with him, and David had his two wives: Ahinoam of Jezreel and Abigail of Carmel, Nabal’s widow.
4 When it was reported to Saul that David had fled to Gath, he no longer searched for him.
5 Now David said to Achish, “If I have found favor with you, let me be given a place in one of the outlying towns, so I can live there. Why should your servant live in the royal city with you? ”
6 That day Achish gave Ziklag to him, and it still belongs to the kings of Judah today.
7 The time that David stayed in the Philistine territory amounted to a year and four months.
8 David and his men went up and raided the Geshurites, the Girzites, and the Amalekites. From ancient times they had been the inhabitants of the region through Shur as far as the land of Egypt.