5David 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?|


In Context

2 David arose, and passed over, he and the six hundred men who were with him, to Achish the son of Maoch, king of Gath.

3 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.

4 It was told Saul that David was fled to Gath: and he sought no more again for him.

5 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?|

6 Then Achish gave him Ziklag that day: why Ziklag pertains to the kings of Judah to this day.

7 The number of the days that David lived in the country of the Philistines was a full year and four months.

1 Samuel 27:5 in Other Translations

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

27:5Then 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?"

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

27:5And David said unto Achish, If I have now found grace in thine eyes, let them give me a place in some town in the country, that I may dwell there: for why should thy servant dwell in the royal city with thee?

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

27:5And David said to Achis: If I have found favour in thy sight, let a place be given me in one of the cities of this country, that I may dwell there: for why should thy servant dwell in the royal city with thee?

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

27:5And David said unto Achish, If now I have found favor in thine eyes, let them give me a place in one of the cities in the country, that I may dwell there: for why should thy servant dwell in the royal city with thee?

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

27:5And David said to Achish, If now I have found favour in thine eyes, let them give me a place in some country-town, that I may abide there; for why should thy servant abide in the royal city with thee?

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

27:5And David said unto Achish, If now I have found grace in thine eyes, let them give me a place in one of the cities in the country, that I may dwell there: for why should thy servant dwell in the royal city with thee?

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

27:5And David said to Achish, If I have now found grace in thy eyes, let them give me a place in some town in the country, that I may dwell there: for why should thy servant dwell in the royal city with thee?

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

27:5And David saith unto Achish, 'If, I pray thee, I have found grace in thine eyes, they give to me a place in one of the cities of the field, and I dwell there, yea, why doth thy servant dwell in the royal city with thee?'

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

27:5And David said to Achish, If I have now found grace in your eyes, let them give me a place in some town in the country, that I may dwell there: for why should your servant dwell in the royal city with you?