1 Samuel 21:10–22:1
10 Then David arose and fled that day from Saul, and went to aAchish king of Gath.
11 But the aservants of Achish said to him, “Is this not David the king of the land? bDid they not sing of this one as they danced, saying,
‘Saul has slain his thousands,
And David his ten thousands’?”
12 David atook these words 1to heart and greatly feared Achish king of Gath.
13 So he adisguised his sanity before them, and acted insanely in their hands, and scribbled on the doors of the gate, and let his saliva run down into his beard.
14 Then Achish said to his servants, “Behold, you see the man behaving as a madman. Why do you bring him to me?
15 “Do I lack madmen, that you have brought this one to act the madman in my presence? Shall this one come into my house?”
1 So David departed from there and aescaped to bthe cave of Adullam; and when his brothers and all his father’s household heard of it, they went down there to him.