4. When Saul found out that David had run off to Gath, he stopped trying to catch him.
5. One day, David was talking with Achish and said, “If you are happy with me, then let me live in one of the towns in the countryside. I'm not important enough to live here with you in the royal city.”
6. Achish gave David the town of Ziklag that same day, and Ziklag has belonged to the kings of Judah ever since.
7. David was in Philistia for a year and four months.
8. The Geshurites, the Girzites, and the Amalekites lived in the area from Telam to Shur and on as far as Egypt, and David often attacked their towns.
9. Whenever David and his men attacked a town, they took the sheep, cattle, donkeys, camels, and the clothing, and killed everyone who lived there.After he returned from a raid, David always went to see Achish,