1David, however, said to himself, “One of these days now I will be swept away by the hand of Saul. There is nothing better for me than to escape to the land of the Philistines. Then Saul will stop searching for me all over Israel, and I will slip out of his hand.”
2So David set out with his six hundred men and went to Achish son of Maoch, the king of Gath.
— 1 Samuel 27:1-2