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1 Samuel 21
¹² David took these words to heart and greatly feared Achish king of Gath.
¹³ So he disguised his sanity before them, and acted insanely in their hands, and scribbled on the doors of the gate, and let his saliva run down into his beard.
¹⁴ Then Achish said to his servants, "Behold, you see the man behaving as a madman. Why do you bring him to me?
¹⁵ Do I lack madmen, that you have brought this one to act the madman in my presence? Shall this one come into my house?"
1 Samuel 22
¹ So David departed from there and escaped to the cave of Adullam; and when his brothers and all his father’s household heard of it, they went down there to him.
² Everyone who was in distress, and everyone who was in debt, and everyone who was discontented gathered to him; and he became captain over them. Now there were about four hundred men with him.
³ And David went from there to Mizpah of Moab; and he said to the king of Moab, "Please let my father and my mother come and stay with you until I know what God will do for me."
⁴ Then he left them with the king of Moab; and they stayed with him all the time that David was in the stronghold.
⁵ The prophet Gad said to David, "Do not stay in the stronghold; depart, and go into the land of Judah." So David departed and went into the forest of Hereth.
⁶ Then Saul heard that David and the men who were with him had been discovered. Now Saul was sitting in Gibeah, under the tamarisk tree on the height with his spear in his hand, and all his servants were standing around him.
⁷ Saul said to his servants who stood around him, "Hear now, O Benjamites! Will the son of Jesse also give to all of you fields and vineyards? Will he make you all commanders of thousands and commanders of hundreds?