1 Samuel 27:1-2

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition

David Serves King Achish of Gath

27 David said in his heart, ‘I shall now perish one day by the hand of Saul; there is nothing better for me than to escape to the land of the Philistines; then Saul will despair of seeking me any longer within the borders of Israel, and I shall escape out of his hand.’ ² So David set out and went over, he and the six hundred men who were with him, to King Achish son of Maoch of Gath.