1 Samuel 27:12

27:12 So Achish trusted David, thinking to himself,9 “He is really hated10 among his own people in11 Israel! From now on12 he will be my servant.”

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9	tn Heb “saying.”
10	tn Heb “he really stinks.” The expression is used figuratively here to describe the rejection and ostracism that David had experienced as a result of Saul’s hatred of him.
11	tc Many medieval Hebrew mss lack the preposition “in.”
12	tn Heb “permanently.”