1 Samuel 27:10-12

Contemporary English Version

¹⁰ who would ask, “Where did you attack today?”^[a]

David would answer, “Oh, we attacked some desert town that belonged to the Judah tribe.” Sometimes David would say, “Oh, we attacked a town in the desert where the Jerahmeel clan lives” or “We attacked a town in the desert where the Kenites^[b] live.” ¹¹ That's why David killed everyone in the towns he attacked. He thought, “If I let any of them live, they might come to Gath and tell what I've really been doing.”

David made these raids all the time he was in Philistia. ¹² But Achish trusted David and thought, “David's people must be furious with him. From now on he will have to take orders from me.”