² So the woman got up and did as the man of God said; and she and the people of her house were living in the land of the Philistines for seven years.

³ The five chiefs of the Philistines, and all the Canaanites and the Zidonians and the Hivites living in Mount Lebanon, from the mountain Baal-hermon as far as Hamath:

¹ And David said to himself, Some day death will come to me by the hand of Saul: the only thing for me to do is to get away into the land of the Philistines; then Saul will give up hope of taking me in any part of the land of Israel: and so I may be able to get away from him.

² So David and the six hundred men who were with him went over to Achish, the son of Maoch, king of Gath.

³ And David and his men were living with Achish at Gath; every man had his family with him, and David had his two wives, Ahinoam of Jezreel, and Abigail of Carmel, who had been the wife of Nabal.

⁸ If anyone has no care for his family and those in his house, he is false to the faith, and is worse than one who has no faith.