1 Samuel 27:5

New International Version

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?”

Cross References

Genesis 46:34

you should answer, ‘Your servants have tended livestock from our boyhood on, just as our fathers did.’ Then you will be allowed to settle in the region of Goshen, for all shepherds are detestable to the Egyptians.”

2 Corinthians 6:17

Therefore, “Come out from them and be separate, says the Lord. Touch no unclean thing, and I will receive you.”

1 Samuel 27:4

When Saul was told that David had fled to Gath, he no longer searched for him.

1 Samuel 27:6

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