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Then David {thought to himself},[note: Literally "said to his heart"] "Now I will perish one day by the hand of Saul! There is nothing better for me but [that] I must certainly escape to the land of [the] Philistines. Then Saul will desist from searching for me further in all of the territories of Israel, and so I will escape from his hand."
So David got up and crossed over, he and the six hundred men who [were] with him, to Achish the son of Maoch, the king of Gath.