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.”

¹¶ Na ka mea a Rawiri i roto i tona ngakau, Katahi ahau ka ngaro i te ringa o Haora a tetahi ra; kahore atu he mea pai moku i te hohoro o toku mawhiti atu ki te whenua o nga Pirihitini, kia ngakaukore ai a Haora ki te rapu ano i ahau i nga rohe kato a o Iharaira: penei ka mawhiti atu ahau i roto i tona ringa.

²David arose, and passed over, he and the six hundred men who were with him, to Achish the son of Maoch, king of Gath.

²Na whakatika ana a Rawiri, a haere ana ratou ko ona hoa e ono rau ki a Akihi tama a Maoko, ki te kingi o Kata.

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.

³Na ka noho a Rawiri ki a Akihi ki Kata, a ia me ana tangata, me te whare ano o tenei, o tenei, a Rawiri hoki ratou ko ana wahine tokorua, ko Ahinoama o Ietereere, ko Apikaira o Karamere, wahine a Napara.

⁴It was told Saul that David was fled to Gath: and he sought no more again for him.

⁴A ka korerotia ki a Haora, kua rere a Rawiri ki Kata, na mutu ake tana rapu i a ia.

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?”

⁵Na ka mea a Rawiri ki a Akihi, Ki te mea kua manakohia nei ahau e koe, kia homai e ratou tetahi wahi ki ahau i roto i tetahi o nga pa i te koraha, hei nohoanga moku: he aha hoki tau pononga i noho ai ki a koe i roto i te pa kingi?

⁶Then Achish gave him Ziklag that day: why Ziklag pertains to the kings of Judah to this day.

⁶Na ka homai e Akihi ki a ia i taua ra a Tikiraka: na reira nga kingi o Hura i whiwhi ai ki Tikiraka a mohoa noa nei.

⁷The number of the days that David lived in the country of the Philistines was a full year and four months.

⁷Na, ko te maha o nga ra i noho ai a Rawiri ki te whenua o nga Pirihitini, kotahi tau, e wha marama.

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.

⁸¶ Katahi a Rawiri ka haere, ratou ko ana tangata, ka whakaeke i nga Kehuri, i nga Kireti, i nga Amareki; ko era hoki nga iwi kua noho noa ake ki tera whenua i tou haerenga ki Huru a te whenua o Ihipa atu ana.

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.

⁹Na patua iho e Rawiri tera whenua; kihai hoki i whakaorangia tetahi tane, wahine ranei; a tangohia ana e ia nga hipi, nga kau, nga kaihe, nga kamera, me nga kakahu, a hoki ana, haere ana ki a Akihi.

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.”

¹⁰Na ka mea a Akihi, Ko hea i whakaekea e koutou i tenei ra? Ano ra ko Rawiri, Ko te tonga o Hura, ko te tonga o nga Ierameeri, ko te taha ano ki te tonga o nga Keni.

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.’”

¹¹Kihai hoki i whakaorangia e Rawiri tetahi tane, wahine ranei, hei kawe i a ratou ki Kata; i mea hoki, Kei korero ratou i ta tatou, kei mea, I penei a Rawiri, a ko tana hanga ano tenei i nga ra katoa i noho ai ia ki te whenua o nga Pirihitini.

¹²Achish believed David, saying, “He has made his people Israel utterly to abhor him. Therefore he shall be my servant forever.”

¹²Na whakapono tonu a Akihi ki ta Rawiri, a ka mea, Kua tino mea rawa ia i a ia kia whakariharihangia e tona iwi, e Iharaira: na reira hei tangata tuturu ia maku ake, ake.