Achish

2 definitions found

From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:

  Achish
     angry, perhaps only a general title of royalty applicable to the
     Philistine kings. (1.) The king with whom David sought refuge
     when he fled from Saul (1 Sam. 21:10-15). He is called Abimelech
     in the superscription of Ps. 34. It was probably this same king
     to whom David a second time repaired at the head of a band of


     600 warriors, and who assigned him Ziklag, whence he carried on
     war against the surrounding tribes (1 Sam. 27:5-12). Achish had
     great confidence in the valour and fidelity of David (1 Sam.
     28:1,2), but at the instigation of his courtiers did not permit
     him to go up to battle along with the Philistine hosts (1 Sam.
     29:2-11). David remained with Achish a year and four months.
     (2.) Another king of Gath, probably grandson of the foregoing,
     to whom the two servants of Shimei fled. This led Shimei to go
     to Gath in pursuit of them, and the consequence was that Solomon
     put him to death (1 Kings 2:39-46).
     

From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]:

  Achish, thus it is; how is this