Maoch

• 1 Samuel 27:2 says, “David arose and passed over, he and the six hundred men who were with him, to Achish the son of Maoch, king of Gath”, and 27:3, “David lived with Achish at Gath, he and his men, every man with his household”. The Korean Revised Version reads 가드 왕 마옥의 아들 아기스, where 가드 왕 (king of Gath) stands before Maoch.
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  • 1SA 27:1–4, engwebp

    ¹David said in his heart, “I will 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 I will escape out of his hand.”

    ²David arose and passed over, he and the six hundred men who were with him, to Achish the son of Maoch, king of Gath.

    ³David lived with Achish at Gath, he and his men, every man with his household, even David with his two wives, Ahinoam the Jezreelitess and Abigail the Carmelitess, Nabal’s wife.

    ⁴Saul was told that David had fled to Gath, so he stopped looking for him.

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• 1 Kings 2:39 says, “At the end of three years, two of Shimei’s slaves ran away to Achish, son of Maacah, king of Gath.” At 2:40 Shimei goes to Gath to Achish to seek his slaves, and brings his slaves from Gath. The Korean Revised Version reads 가드 왕 마아가의 아들 아기스, where 가드 왕 (king of Gath) stands before Maacah.
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  • 1KI 2:39–46, engwebp

    ³⁹At the end of three years, two of Shimei’s slaves ran away to Achish, son of Maacah, king of Gath. They told Shimei, saying, “Behold, your slaves are in Gath.”

    ⁴⁰Shimei arose, saddled his donkey, and went to Gath to Achish to seek his slaves; and Shimei went and brought his slaves from Gath.

    ⁴¹Solomon was told that Shimei had gone from Jerusalem to Gath, and had come again.

    ⁴²The king sent and called for Shimei, and said to him, “Didn’t I adjure you by the LORD and warn you, saying, ‘Know for certain that on the day you go out and walk anywhere else, you shall surely die’? You said to me, ‘The saying that I have heard is good.’

    ⁴³Why then have you not kept the oath of the LORD and the commandment that I have instructed you with?”

    ⁴⁴The king said moreover to Shimei, “You know in your heart all the wickedness that you did to David my father. Therefore the LORD will return your wickedness on your own head.

    ⁴⁵But King Solomon will be blessed, and David’s throne will be established before the LORD forever.”

    ⁴⁶So the king commanded Benaiah the son of Jehoiada; and he went out, and fell on him, so that he died. The kingdom was established in the hand of Solomon.

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1 Samuel 27:2 names “Achish the son of Maoch, king of Gath”, and 1 Kings 2:39 “Achish, son of Maacah, king of Gath”. In both editions the two verses give the same name and the title king of Gath, and the father another name (the Korean 마옥 and 마아가, WEB Maoch and Maacah); in the Korean both verses can also be read with the father as the king of Gath. This collection records two men and does not decide whether the two Achishes are one man.