World English Bible
1 Samuel 27:6
“Then Achish gave him Ziklag that day: why Ziklag pertains to the kings of Judah to this day.”
Verse in context — 1 Samuel 27
It was told Saul that David was fled to Gath: and he sought no more again for him.
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?
Then Achish gave him Ziklag that day: why Ziklag pertains to the kings of Judah to this day.
The number of the days that David lived in the country of the Philistines was a full year and four months.
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.
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