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Then David said to Achish, “Please, if I have found favor in your eyes, then let them give me a place in one of the country towns[a] that I can live there. Why should your servant live in the royal city[b] with you?”

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Samuel 27:5 Literally “towns of the open field”
  2. 1 Samuel 27:5 Literally “the city of the king”

And David said to Achish, If now I have found favour in thine eyes, let them give me a place in some country-town, that I may abide there; for why should thy servant abide in the royal city with thee?

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