1 Samuel 27:5

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru

Berkatalah Daud kepada Akhis: "Jika kiranya aku mendapat belas kasihanmu, biarlah diberikan kepadaku tempat di salah satu kota di tanah datar, supaya aku tinggal di sana. Mengapa hambamu ini tinggal padamu di kota kerajaan ini?"

Parallel Translations

Bahasa Indonesia Sehari-hari
Berkatalah Daud kepada Akhis: "Jika kiranya aku mendapat belas kasihanmu, biarlah diberikan kepadaku tempat di salah satu kota di tanah datar, supaya aku tinggal di sana. Mengapa hambamu ini tinggal padamu di kota kerajaan ini?"

Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Maka sembah Daud kepada Akhis: Jikalau kiranya patik sudah beroleh kasihan pada pemandangan tuanku, hendaklah diberikan tempat akan patik dalam salah sebuah negeri tanah ini, supaya patik boleh duduk dalamnya, karena mengapa patik akan duduk dengan tuanku dalam negeri kerajaan ini?

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

some town: Genesis 46:34, 2 Corinthians 6:17

Reciprocal: Joshua 10:2 - the royal cities

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And David said unto Achish,.... After he had been some time with him:

if I have now found grace in thine eyes; or was in favour, as he thought himself to be, by various instances of respect shown him:

let them give me a place in some town in the country, that I may dwell there: he does not ask for a city or town, but a place in one of them, though one was given him; but of whom he asks it, it is not easy to say; though it is certain that Achish gave it him, 1 Samuel 27:6. Perhaps he might desire it might be given him by Achish, with the consent of his princes and nobles, or at least of his privy council; that so it might be to general satisfaction, and the grant more authentic; though it may be impersonally read, as in the Vulgate Latin version, "let there be given me", c. David's view in this might be partly to prevent the envy of the courtiers of Achish, who might think that David was too near the king, and might have too great an interest in him, and receive too many of his favours, and become his chief confidant and prime minister and partly to preserve himself and people from all temptations to idolatry, and corruptions in religion; as also that ho might have an opportunity, without the knowledge of Achish, to fall upon the enemies of Israel; though the excuse he made was as follows:

for why should thy servant dwell in the royal city with thee? for so Gath was; and six hundred men and their families might seem to crowd the city; and this reasoning of his might suggest, that he and his men were a straitening of him, and a burden on him; and it might seem as if he was a rival with him in state and dignity, when he was no other than a servant of his.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

David, with characteristic Oriental subtlety (compare 1 Samuel 21:2), suggests as a reason for leaving Gath that his presence was burdensome and expensive to the king. His real motive was to be more out of the way of observation and control, so as to act the part of an enemy of Saul, without really lifting up his hand against him and his own countrymen of Israel.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 1 Samuel 27:5. Why should thy servant dwell in the royal city — He seemed to intimate that two princely establishments in the same city were too many. Achish appears to have felt the propriety of his proposal, and therefore appoints him Ziklag.