1 Samuel 27

1 But David thought, “Some day Saul will capture me [if I stay around here]. So the best thing that I can do is to escape and go to the Philistia area. If I do that, Saul will stop searching for me here in Israel, and I will be safe.”

Y dijo David en su corazón: Al fin seré cortado algún día por la mano de Saul, por tanto nada me será mejor que escaparme en la tierra de los Filisteos, para que Saul se deje de mí, y no me ande buscando más por todos los términos de Israel; y así me escaparé de sus manos.

2 So David and his 600 men left Israel and went to see Maoch’s son Achish, who was king of Gath [city in the Philistia area].

Y levantándose David pasóse él, y los seiscientos hombres que estaban con él, a Aquis, hijo de Maoc, rey de Get.

3 David and his men and their families started to live there in Gath, the city where king Achish lived. David’s two wives were with him—Ahinoam from Jezreel, and Nabal’s widow Abigail, from Carmel.

Y moró David con Aquis en Get, él y los suyos, cada uno con su familia, David y sus dos mujeres Aquinoam Jezraelita, y Abigail, la mujer de Nabal, él del Carmelo.

4 When someone told Saul that David had run away [and was living] in Gath, he stopped searching for David.

Y vino la nueva a Saul, que David se había huido a Get, y no le buscó más.

5 [One day] David said to Achish, “If you are pleased with us, give us a place in one of the small villages where we can stay. There is no need [RHQ] for us to stay in the city where you are the king.”

Y David dijo a Aquis: Si he hallado ahora gracia en tus ojos, séame dado lugar en alguna de las ciudades de la tierra, donde habite: ¿por qué ha de morar tu siervo contigo en la ciudad real?

6 [Achish liked what David suggested]. So that day Achish gave to David Ziklag [town]. As a result, Ziklag has belonged to the kings of Judah since that time.

Y Aquis le dio aquel día a Siceleg. De aquí fue Siceleg de los reyes de Judá hasta hoy.

7 David [and his men] lived in the Philistia area for 16 months.

Y fue el número de los días que David habitó en la tierra de los Filisteos, cuatro meses, y algunos días.

8 [During that time] David and his men raided the people who lived [in the areas] where the Geshur, Girzi, and Amalek people-groups lived. Those people had lived there a long time. That area extended [south] from Telam to the Shur [Desert] and to [the border of] Egypt.

Y subía David con los suyos, y hacían entradas en los Gessureos, y en los Gerzeos, y en los Amalecitas; porque estos habitaban la tierra de luengo tiempo, desde como van a Sur hasta la tierra de Egipto.

9 Whenever David’s men attacked them, they killed all the men and women, and they took all the people’s sheep and cattle and donkeys and camels, and even their clothes. Then they would bring those things back home, [and David would go to talk] to Achish.

Y hería David la tierra, y no dejaba a vida hombre ni mujer: y llevábase las ovejas, y las vacas, y los asnos, y los camellos, y las ropas, y volvía, y se venía a Aquis.

10 Each time Achish would ask David, “Where did you go raiding today?” David [would lie to him]. Sometimes he would reply that they had gone to the southern part of Judah, and sometimes he would say that they had gone to Jerahmeel, or to the area where the Ken people-group lived.

Y decía Aquis: ¿Dónde habéis corrido hoy? Y David decía: Al mediodía de Judá, y al mediodía de Jerameel, o contra el mediodía de Ceni.

11 David’s men never brought back to Gath any man or woman who was left alive. David thought, “If [we do not kill everyone, some of] them [who are still alive] will go and tell Achish [the truth] about what we really did.” David did that all the time that he [and his men] lived in the Philistia area.

Ni hombre ni mujer dejaba a vida David, que viniese a Get, diciendo: Porque no den aviso de nosotros, diciendo: Esto hizo David. Y esta era su costumbre todo el tiempo que moró en tierra de los Filisteos.

12 So Achish believed [what] David [told him], and said to himself, “[Because of what David has done, ] his own people, the Israelis, must now hate him very much. So he will have to [stay here and] serve me forever.”

Y Aquis creía a David, diciendo así: El se hace abominable en su pueblo de Israel; y así será siempre mi siervo.