Bible Verse

Then David said to Achish, “If I have found favor in your eyes, let a place be assigned to me in one of the country towns, that I may live there. Why should your servant live in the royal city with you?”

1 Samuel 27:5

So on that day Achish gave him Ziklag, and it has belonged to the kings of Judah ever since.

1 Samuel 27:6

David lived in Philistine territory a year and four months.

1 Samuel 27:7

Achish trusted David and said to himself, “He has become so obnoxious to his people, the Israelites, that he will be my servant for life.”