1 Samuel 27:11

Bahasa Indonesia Sehari-hari

Daud tidak membiarkan hidup seorangpun, baik laki-laki maupun perempuan, untuk dibawa ke Gat, sebab pikirnya: "Jangan-jangan mereka mengabarkan tentang kami, dengan berkata: Beginilah dilakukan Daud." Itulah kebiasaannya, selama ia tinggal di daerah orang Filistin.

Parallel Translations

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
Daud tidak membiarkan hidup seorangpun, baik laki-laki maupun perempuan, untuk dibawa ke Gat, sebab pikirnya: "Jangan-jangan mereka mengabarkan tentang kami, dengan berkata: Beginilah dilakukan Daud." Itulah kebiasaannya, selama ia tinggal di daerah orang Filistin.

Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Maka tiada dihidupi Daud akan laki-laki atau perempuan akan dibawa ke Gat, katanya: Jangan disampaikannya kabar perbuatan kita, serta katanya: Begini begitu perbuatan Daud! Maka demikianlah peri kelakuan Daud pada segala hari iapun duduk dalam negeri orang Filistin.

Contextual Overview

⁸ And Dauid and his men went vp and inuaded the Gesurites, the Gerzites, & the Amalekites: For those natios were from the beginnyng the inhabitauntes of the lande, as men go to Sur, vnto the land of Egypt. ⁹ And Dauid smote the lande, & left neither man nor woman alyue, and droue away the sheepe, the oxen, the asses, camelles, and clothes, and returned, and came to Achis. ¹⁰ And Achis saide: Where haue ye ben a rouing this day? And Dauid aunswered: Against the south of Iuda, and against the south of the Ierameelites, and against the south of the Kenites. ¹¹ And Dauid saued neither man nor woman alyue to bring to Gath, saying: lest they should tell on vs, saying, so dyd Dauid, and so will be his maner all the whyle he dwelleth in the countrey of the Philistines. ¹² And Achis beleued Dauid, saying: He hath made his people Israel vtterly to abhorre him, & therefore he shalbe my seruaunt for euer.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Lest: 1 Samuel 22:22, Proverbs 12:19, Proverbs 29:25

Reciprocal: 1 Samuel 27:1 - into the land 1 Samuel 30:2 - slew not 2 Samuel 17:20 - They be gone Jeremiah 41:4 - after

Cross-References

Genesis 25:25
And he that came out fyrst, was red, and he was all ouer as it were a hearie garment, and they called his name Esau.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And David saved neither man nor woman alive to bring [tidings] to Gath,.... How David had fallen upon these people, and destroyed great numbers of them, and carried off their substance; which would have given great offence to Achish, and caused him to have driven him out of his country once more; though Abarbinel is of opinion that these Geshurites, c. were haters and enemies of Achish, and therefore were smitten and spoiled by David or otherwise it would have been such a piece of perfidy, rebellion, and ingratitude, as mast have made the name of David to stink, since it could not but be known sooner or later; but being the enemies of Achish, no notice was taken of it afterwards, nor inquiry made about it, nor complaint made of it, by any of their neighbours: nor does he suppose they were all cut off, and much less that this was done that it might not be told in Gath what destruction he had made; but that the sense is, that he did not carry the captives to Gath, to be disposed of there; for they would have told from whence they came, and so have contradicted what David said, and what he would have Achish understand, as if he had been out against and smote some of the cities of Judah, that he might place the greater confidence in him; which end would not have been answered, if he had brought any of them to Gath; and so the words may be read without the supplement we make, "spared neither man nor woman alive to bring to Gath": and so could tell no tales. Though Josephus expressly says k that David spared the men, and abstained from the slaughter of them, fearing lest they should declare to the king what he had done in plundering them:

saying, lest they should tell on us, saying, so did David: in such and such places, such numbers of people he destroyed, and such quantities of cattle and goods he carried off:

and so [will be] his manner all the while he dwelleth in the country of the Philistines: this is what may be expected will be done by him in one place or another, as long as he stays here; nothing will be heard of but desolation and destruction, in some part of the country of the Philistines or another; or among those that were tributaries to them; so that it was not safe that he should be allowed to abide in it.

k Antiqu. l. 6. c. 13. sect. 10.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Tidings - The word is not in the original. The sense rather is “to bring them to Gath,” as captives and slaves. The prisoners taken would naturally have been part of the spoil, but David dared not to bring them to Gath lest his deceit should be discovered. Obviously these tribes were allies of the Philistines.