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1 Samuel 27:5
“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?”
Verse in context — 1 Samuel 27
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.
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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?
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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.
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