Holy Scripture

1 Samuel 27:6

A church father on this verse
“Therefore Achis gave him on that day Siceleg, etc. Siceleg is interpreted as the purification of a raised voice; but to purify a voice is to bring a voice to itself, with careful discretion, to inquire which speech smells of truth, which of falsehood. Therefore, the believers from the Gentiles gave to Christ, to dedic…”
Bede, 8th c. — Commentary on Samuel

Source: Septuagint

Original

6And he gave him Ziklag in that day: therefore Ziklag came into possession of the king of Judea to this day.

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4And it was told Saul that David had fled to Gath; and he no longer sought after him.

5And David said to Achish, If now thy servant has found grace in thine eyes, let them give me, I pray thee, a place in one of the cities in the country, and I will dwell there: for why does thy servant dwell with thee in a royal city?

— 1 Samuel 27:6 —

7And the number of the days that David dwelt in the country of the Philistines was four months.

8And David and his men went up, and made an attack on all the Girzites and on the Amalekites: and behold, the land was inhabited (even the land from Gelampsur) by those who come from the fortified cities even to the land of Egypt.

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