1 Samuel 27

1 Samuel 27 (The Message)

- v7 David lived in Philistine country a year and four months.

- v8 From time to time David and his men raided the Geshurites, the Girzites, and the Amalekites...

- v10 Achish would ask, "And whom did you raid today?"

- v11 David would tell him, "Oh, the Negev of Judah," or "The Negev of Jerahmeel," or "The Negev of the Kenites." He never left a single person alive lest one show up in Gath and report what David had really been doing. This is the way David operated all the time he lived in Philistine country.

- v12 Achish came to trust David completely. He thought, "He's made himself so repugnant to his people that he'll be in my camp forever."

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David wasn't naive and stupid.