In Context

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.

8 David and his men went up, and made a raid on the Geshurites, and the Girzites, and the Amalekites; for those nations were the inhabitants of the land, who were of old, as you go to Shur, even to the land of Egypt.

1 Samuel 27:6 in Other Translations