David said in his heart, “I will 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 I will escape out of his hand.”
David arose and passed over, he and the six hundred men who were with him, to Achish the son of Maoch, king of Gath.