1Zvino Dhavhidhi akati mumoyo make, Mumwe musi ndichaparadzwa hangu noruoko rwaSauro; zviri nani kwazvo kwandiri kuti nditizire kunyika yavaFirisitia; Sauro uchazoora moyo pamusoro pangu, akarega kunditsvaka panyika yose yaIsiraeri; saizvozvo ndichapukunyuka paruoko rwake.
1David said in his heart, “I shall now perish one day by the hand of Saul. There is nothing better for me than that I should escape into the land of the Philistines; and Saul will despair of me, to seek me any more in all the borders of Israel. So shall I escape out of his hand.”
2Dhavhidhi akasimuka, akayambuka, iye navarume vana mazana matanhatu vaakanga anavo, akaenda kuna Akishi, mwanakomana waMaoki, mambo weGati.
2David arose, and passed over, he and the six hundred men who were with him, to Achish the son of Maoch, king of Gath.
3Dhavhidhi akagara naAkishi paGati, iye navanhu vake, munhu mumwe nomumwe ane mhuri yake, iye Dhavhidhi ana vakadzi vake vaviri, Ahinowamu muJezereeri, naAbhigairi muKarimeri, waiva mukadzi waNabhari.
3David 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 Carmelitess, Nabal’s wife.
4Sauro akaudzwa kuti Dhavhidhi watizira Gati, akasazomutsvakazve.
4It was told Saul that David was fled to Gath: and he sought no more again for him.
5Zvino Dhavhidhi akati kuna Akishi, Zvino kana ndakanzwirwa tsitsi nemi, ngandipiwe hangu pokugara pane rimwe guta renyika ino, ndigarepo, nekuti muranda uchagarireiko pamuzinda pamwechete nemi?
5David 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 should your servant dwell in the royal city with you?”
6Naizvozvo Akishi akamupa Zikiragi nomusi iwoyo; naizvozvo Zikiragi nderamadzimambo aJudha kusvikira nhasi.
6Then Achish gave him Ziklag that day: why Ziklag pertains to the kings of Judah to this day.
7Zvino mazuva akagara Dhavhidhi panyika yavaFirisitia akasvika gore rose nemwedzi mina.
7The number of the days that David lived in the country of the Philistines was a full year and four months.
8Dhavhidhi navanhu vake vakakwira vakandopambara vaGeshuri navaGirizi, navaAmareki; nekuti marudzi iwayo ndiwo akanga agere panyika iyo kare, kana munhu achienda Shuri kusvikira panyika yeEgipita.
8David and his men went up, and made a raid on the Geshurites, and the Girzites, and the Amalekites; for those were the inhabitants of the land, who were of old, as you go to Shur, even to the land of Egypt.
9Dhavhidhi akakunda nyika iyo, haana kurega murume kana mukadzi ari mupenyu, akatapa makwai, nemombe, nembongoro, namakamera, nenguvo; akadzoka, akasvika kuna Akishi.
9David struck the land, and saved neither man nor woman alive, and took away the sheep, and the cattle, and the donkeys, and the camels, and the clothing; and he returned, and came to Achish.
10Akishi akati, Mandopambara kupiko nhasi? Dhavhidhi akati, Kurutivi rwezasi rwavaJudha, nokurutivi rwezasi rwavaJerameeri, nokurutivi rwezasi rwavaKeni.
10Achish 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 of the Kenites.”
11Dhavhidhi haana kurega murume kana mukadzi ari mupenyu, kuti auye navo paGati, achiti, Ngavarege kutiudzisira, vachiti, Dhavhidhi wakaita zvokuti nezvokuti, ndiyo tsika yake nguva yose achigere munyika yavaFirisitia.
11David saved neither man nor woman alive, to bring them to Gath, saying, “Lest they should tell of us, saying, ‘David this, and this has been his way all the time he has lived in the country of the Philistines.’”
12Akishi akatenda Dhavhidhi achiti, Wazvivengesa kwazvo navanhu vake Isiraeri; naizvozvo uchava muranda wangu nokusingaperi.
12Achish believed David, saying, “He has made his people Israel utterly to abhor him. Therefore he shall be my servant forever.”