"Then David said to Achish, 'If I have now found favor in your eyes, let them give me a place in some town in the country, that I may dwell there. For why should your servant dwell in the royal city with you?' So Achish gave him Ziklag that day. Therefore Ziklag has belonged to the kings of Judah to this day. Now the time that David dwelt in the country of the Philistines was one full year and four months," 1 Samuel 27:5-7, NKJV. #ForeignSympathy
A reoccurring theme in the scriptures which appears throughout both testaments is when the servants of God find themselves between a rock and hard place, with the people of their homeland desiring to kill them and escape into the hands of the enemy is the only other alternative; as a result, the sympathy of a foreign nation is often given in an attempt to break the impasse, usually by the hand of their king.
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