5 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⌋e that I can live there. Why should your servant live in ⌊the royal city⌋f with you?” 6 So Achish gave him Ziklag on that day. (Therefore, Ziklag has belonged to the kings of Judah until this day.) 7 The number of days that David lived in the countryside of the Philistines was one year and four months.

8 Now David and his men went up and raided the Geshurites and the Girzites and the Amalekites, for they had been living in the land for a long time ⌊in the direction of⌋g Shur and ⌊as far as⌋h the land of Egypt. 9 So David struck the land and did not leave a man or a woman alive; he took the sheep,i the cattle, the donkeys, the camels, and the clothing. Then he returned and came to Achish. 10 And Achish said, “Against whom have you raided today?” David said, “Against the Negev of Judah and against the Negev of the Jerahmeelites and against the Negev of the Kenites.” 11 And David did not leave alive a man or a woman to bring them back to Gath, thinking,j “So that they will not report about us, saying, ‘David did thus and so.’ ” Thus was his practice all the days that he lived in the countryside of the Philistines. 12 And Achish trusted David, saying, “⌊He has made himself utterly hated⌋k among his people in Israel, and he will be my servant forever.”