David said in his heart, I shall now perish one day by the hand of Saul: there is nothing better for me than that I should escape into the land of the Philistines; and Saul will despair of me, to seek me any more in all the borders of Israel: so shall I escape out of his hand.
"David went over ... with his six hundred men"  (1 Samuel 27:2). "Achish welcomed David, no doubt because of the six hundred men which he commanded."[2]