David and his men went up, and made a raid on the Geshurites, and the Girzites, and the Amalekites; for those [nations] were the inhabitants of the land, who were of old, as you go to Shur, even to the land of Egypt.
"Like Nabal [in 1 Samuel 25:10], Achish seriously underestimates David by regarding him as a servant or slave." [Note: Miscall, p. 165. Cf. Gunn, The Fate . . ., p. 107.] 