”Then David said to Achish, “If I have now found favor in your eyes, let them give me a place in some town in the country, that I may dwell there. For why should your servant dwell in the royal city with you?” So Achish gave him Ziklag that day. Therefore Ziklag has belonged to the kings of Judah to this day. Now the time that David dwelt in the country of the Philistines was one full year and four months.“ I Samuel 27:5-7 NKJV
a. David said to Achish, “If I have now found favor in your eyes”: Before, David never cared about finding favor in the eyes of a Philistine ruler. This is a great change in David.
b. Why should your servant dwell in the royal city with you? It smarts to hear David say to a Philistine ruler, “your servant.” David wanted his own city because “he needed freedom to operate his own independent policy without being observed too closely.” (Baldwin)
c. Let them give me a place... that I may dwell there: In David’s mind, this isn’t just a visit to the Philistines. He may say to himself that he will someday return to Israel, but he isn’t planning on a short stay among the ungodly. He wants to dwell there and he did for one full year and four months.
i. Now David, his 600 men and their families lived in a completely new situation. They lived in a fortified city, a formal place of defense. But apart from God, they aren’t safer in the city. (Guzik)
Apart From God
There are situations where we have gone especially in our youth that we shouldn’t have that we were apart from God.
I am reminded of a song from years ago, Three Dog Night - Mama Told Me (Not to Come). It was about someone who went to a wild party with liquor, drugs, loud music and saw things he shouldn’t have.
Can you remember a time that you were apart from God like David? I can!
Blessings
This one is brutally honest because there were times I was apart from God that I was a complete moron!
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