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.
"So David hath done"  (1 Samuel 27:11).  Keil rejected the rendition of the RSV that connects these words with what David feared the victims might say if he had spared any of them, making the words instead, "A clause appended by the historian himself, to the effect that David continued to act in that manner as long as he dwelt in the land of the Philistines."[14]