27:12 So Achish trusted David, thinking to himself, 1 “He is really hated 2 among his own people in 3 Israel! From now on 4 he will be my servant.”
1 tnHeb “saying.”
2 tnHeb “he really stinks.” The expression is used figuratively here to describe the rejection and ostracism that David had experienced as a result of Saul’s hatred of him.
3 tc Many medieval Hebrew mss lack the preposition “in.”