Achish [ÔöÇ├ç’chish]…serpent charmer.…Son of Maoch and the king of Gath to whom David fled …1 Sam. 21:10-14…So David escaped from Saul and went to King Achishof Gath. But the officers of Achish were unhappy about his being there. "Isn't this David, the king of the land?" they asked. "Isn't he the one the people honour with dances, singing, 'Saul has killed his housands, and David his ten thousands'?"… David heard these comments and was very afraid of what King Achish of Gath might do to him.…So he pretended to be insane, scratching on doors and drooling down his eard. Finally, King Achish said to his men, "Must you bring me a madman?…1 Sam.27:2-12…So David took his 600 men and went over and joined Achishson of Maoch, the king of Gath. David and his men and their families settled there with Achish at Gath. David brought his two wives along with him-Ahinoam from Jezreel and Abigail, Nabal's widow from Carmel. …Word soon reached Saul that David had fled to Gath, so he stopped hunting for him. One day David said to Achish, "If it is all right with you, we would rather live in one of the country towns instead of here in the royal city." So Achish gave him the town of Ziklag (which still belongs to the kings of Judah to this day), and they lived there among the Philistines for a year and four months. David and his men spent their time raiding the Geshurites, the Girzites, and the Amalekites-people who had lived near Shur, toward the land of Egypt, since ancient times. David did not leave one person alive in the villages he attacked. He took the sheep, goats, cattle, donkeys, camels, and clothing before returning home to see King Achish. "Where did you make your raid today?" Achish would ask. And David would reply, "Against the south of Judah, the Jerahmeelites, and the Kenites." No one was left alive to come to Gath and tell where he had really been. This happened again and again while he was living among the Philistines. Achish believed David and thought to himself, "By now the people of Israel must hate him bitterly. Now he will have to stay here and serve me forever!"…A king of Gath, who reigned about forty years later than No. 1, in Solomon's time …1 Kings 2:39, 40…But three years later two of Shimei's slaves ran away to King Achishson of Maacah of Gath. When Shimei learned where they were,