David said to Achish, If now I have found favor in your eyes, let them give me a place in one of the cities in the country, that I may dwell there: for why should your servant dwell in the royal city with you?
"Secondly, Achish realized that as soon as David did attack his own people, he would lose for ever the possibility of changing sides." [Note: David Payne, p. 140.] 