e thought it better to go
up into the land of the Philistines, and abide there. Accordingly, he
came with the six hundred men that were with him to Achish, the king of
Gath, which was one of their five cities. Now the king received both him
and his men, and gave them a place to inhabit in. He had with him also
his two wives, Ahinoam and Abigail, and he dwelt in Gath. But when Saul
heard this, he took no further care about sending to him, or going after
him, because he had been twice, in a manner, caught by him, while he was
himself endeavoring to catch him. However, David had no mind to continue
in the city of Gath, but desired the king, that since he had received
him with such humanity, that he would grant him another favor, and
bestow upon him some place of that country for his habitation, for he
was ashamed, by living in the city, to be grievous and burdensome to
him. So Achish gave him a certain village called Ziklag; which place
David and his sons were fond of when he was king, and reckoned it to be
their peculiar inheritance. But about those matters we shall give the
reader further information elsewhere. Now the time that David dwelt in
Ziklag, in the land of the Philistines, was four months and twenty days.
And now he privately attacked those Geshurites and Amalekites that were
neighbors to the Philistines, and laid waste their country, and took
much prey of their beasts and camels, and then returned home; but David
abstained from the men, as fearing they should discover him to king
Achish; yet did he send part of the prey to him as a free gift. And
when the king inquired whom they had attacked when they brought away the
prey, he said, those that lay to the south of the Jews, and inhabited in
the plain; whereby he persuaded Achish to approve of what he had done,
for he hoped that David had fought against his own nation, and that now
he should have him for his servant all his life long, and that he would
stay in his country.

CHAPTER 14. Now Saul Upon God's Not Answering Him Concerning The Fight
With The Philistines Desired A Necromantic Woman To Raise Up The Soul Of
Samuel To Him; And How He Died, With His Sons Upon The Overthrow Of The
Hebrews In Battle.

1. About the same time the Philistines resolved to make war against the
Israelites, and sent to all their confederates that they would go along
with them to the war to Reggan, [near the city Shunem,] whence they
might gather themselves together, and su