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Achish

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Maachah

Named in 20 verses

• 1 Samuel 21:10 David arose and fled that day for fear of Saul, and went to Achish the king of Gath.
• 1 Samuel 21:11 The servants of Achish said to him, “Isn’t this David the king of the land? Didn’t they sing to one another about him in dances, saying, ‘Saul has slain his tho
• 1 Samuel 21:12 David laid up these words in his heart, and was very afraid of Achish the king of Gath.
• 1 Samuel 21:14 Then Achish said to his servants, “Look, you see the man is insane. Why then have you brought him to me?
• 1 Samuel 27:2 David arose and passed over, he and the six hundred men who were with him, to Achish the son of Maoch, king of Gath.
• 1 Samuel 27:3 David lived with Achish at Gath, he and his men, every man with his household, even David with his two wives, Ahinoam the Jezreelitess and Abigail the Carmelite
• 1 Samuel 27:5 David said to Achish, “If now I have found favor in your eyes, let them give me a place in one of the cities in the country, that I may dwell there. For why sho
• 1 Samuel 27:6 Then Achish gave him Ziklag that day: therefore Ziklag belongs to the kings of Judah to this day.
• 1 Samuel 27:9 David struck the land, and saved no man or woman alive, and took away the sheep, the cattle, the donkeys, the camels, and the clothing. Then he returned, and ca
• 1 Samuel 27:10 Achish said, “Against whom have you made a raid today?” David said, “Against the South of Judah, against the South of the Jerahmeelites, and against the South o
• 1 Samuel 27:12 Achish believed David, saying, “He has made his people Israel utterly to abhor him. Therefore he will be my servant forever.”
• 1 Samuel 28:1 In those days, the Philistines gathered their armies together for warfare, to fight with Israel. Achish said to David, “Know assuredly that you will go out with
• 1 Samuel 28:2 David said to Achish, “Therefore you will know what your servant can do.” Achish said to David, “Therefore I will make you my bodyguard forever.”
• 1 Samuel 29:2 The lords of the Philistines passed on by hundreds and by thousands; and David and his men passed on in the rear with Achish.
• 1 Samuel 29:3 Then the princes of the Philistines said, “What about these Hebrews?” Achish said to the princes of the Philistines, “Isn’t this David, the servant of Saul the
• 1 Samuel 29:6 Then Achish called David and said to him, “As Yahweh lives, you have been upright, and your going out and your coming in with me in the army is good in my sight
• 1 Samuel 29:8 David said to Achish, “But what have I done? What have you found in your servant so long as I have been before you to this day, that I may not go and fight agai
• 1 Samuel 29:9 Achish answered David, “I know that you are good in my sight, as an angel of God. Notwithstanding, the princes of the Philistines have said, ‘He shall not go up
• 1 Kings 2:39 At the end of three years, two of Shimei’s slaves ran away to Achish, son of Maacah, king of Gath. They told Shimei, saying, “Behold, your slaves are in Gath.”
• 1 Kings 2:40 Shimei arose, saddled his donkey, and went to Gath to Achish to seek his slaves; and Shimei went and brought his slaves from Gath.