1 Samuel 27 – OL & NIV

O Livro

1 Samuel 27:1-12

David entre os filisteus

1No entanto, David pensava consigo mesmo: “Pode ainda acontecer que Saul me apanhe. O melhor é tentar a minha sorte entre os filisteus, até que Saul realmente desista e deixe de perseguir-me. Só então estarei novamente seguro.”

2Por isso, ele e os seus 600 homens e as suas famílias foram viver para Gate, sob a proteção do rei Aquis, filho de Maoque. 3Tinha consigo as suas duas mulheres, Ainoã de Jezreel e Abigail do Carmelo, a viúva de Nabal. 4Saul veio a saber, em breve, que David tinha fugido para Gate e que tinha parado de o perseguir.

5Um dia, David disse a Aquis: “Meu senhor, se não te parecesse mal, gostaríamos de viver antes numa das cidades da província e não aqui na capital.”

6Então Aquis deu-lhe Ziclague, cidade que ainda hoje pertence aos reis de Judá. 7E ali viveram entre os filisteus durante um ano e quatro meses.

8David e os seus homens passavam o tempo a fazer incursões sobre os gesuritas, os girzitas e os amalequitas, povos filisteus que viviam perto de Sur, ao longo do caminho do Egito, desde tempos remotos. 9Não deixavam alma viva nas localidades sobre as quais caíam e traziam como despojo carneiros, bois, jumentos e camelos, além de vestuário, quando regressavam a casa.

10“Então onde foi a vossa incursão hoje?”, perguntava-lhes Aquis, quando voltavam. E David respondia: “Caímos sobre o sul de Judá, sobre o povo jerameelita e sobre os queneus.” 11Porque não ficava ninguém vivo para dizer onde tinham realmente estado. Fizeram isto muitas vezes, enquanto viveram no meio dos filisteus. 12Aquis acreditava no que David dizia e pensava que o povo de Israel devia aborrecê-lo profundamente. “Ele agora vê-se obrigado a ficar aqui e a servir-me até ao fim da vida!”, pensava o rei.

New International Version

1 Samuel 27:1-12

David Among the Philistines

1But David thought to himself, “One of these days I will be destroyed by the hand of Saul. The best thing I can do is to escape to the land of the Philistines. Then Saul will give up searching for me anywhere in Israel, and I will slip out of his hand.”

2So David and the six hundred men with him left and went over to Achish son of Maok king of Gath. 3David and his men settled in Gath with Achish. Each man had his family with him, and David had his two wives: Ahinoam of Jezreel and Abigail of Carmel, the widow of Nabal. 4When Saul was told that David had fled to Gath, he no longer searched for him.

5Then David said to Achish, “If I have found favor in your eyes, let a place be assigned to me in one of the country towns, that I may live there. Why should your servant live in the royal city with you?”

6So on that day Achish gave him Ziklag, and it has belonged to the kings of Judah ever since. 7David lived in Philistine territory a year and four months.

8Now David and his men went up and raided the Geshurites, the Girzites and the Amalekites. (From ancient times these peoples had lived in the land extending to Shur and Egypt.) 9Whenever David attacked an area, he did not leave a man or woman alive, but took sheep and cattle, donkeys and camels, and clothes. Then he returned to Achish.

10When Achish asked, “Where did you go raiding today?” David would say, “Against the Negev of Judah” or “Against the Negev of Jerahmeel” or “Against the Negev of the Kenites.” 11He 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. 12Achish trusted David and said to himself, “He has become so obnoxious to his people, the Israelites, that he will be my servant for life.”