* The king of Gath better known as Achish, referred to as Abimelech or Achimelech in the title of.

He accepts the town of Ziklag from the Philistine king Achish of Gath, but continues secretly to champion the Israelites.

For example, Psalm 34 is attributed to David on the occasion of his escape from the Abimelech ( king ) Achish by pretending to be insane-according to the narrative in 1 Samuel 21, instead of killing the man who had exacted so many casualties from him, Abimelech allows David to depart, exclaiming, " Am I so short of madmen that you have to bring this fellow here to carry on like this in front of me?

This appears to indicate that either the name Achish was a common name for Philistine kings, used both at Gath and Ekron, or, as Naveh has suggested, that the editor of the biblical text used a known name of a Philistine king from the end of the Iron Age ( Achish of Ekron ) as the name of a king ( s ) of Gath in narratives relating to earlier periods.

* King David, in 1 Samuel 21, feigns insanity to prevent the servants of Achish the king of Gath from recognizing him.

* David and king Achish

* Akish or Achish, king of Gath, is identified with Šuwardata, King of Gath in the Amarna letters.

Achish is a name used in the Hebrew Bible for two Philistine rulers of Gath.

* A King of Gath, to whose son, Achish, Shimei's servants fled early in Solomon's reign ( 1.

About a half-century earlier than this event, David with 600 men had fled to Achish, son of Maoch, King of Gath ( 1.

In the 7th century BC royal inscription from Tel Miqne-Ekron the name Achish appears, along with four other names of the local kings of Ekron.

The film differs from the Biblical story, and shows David pretending to be insane in order to gain admittance to the presence of King Achish, rather than to flee from him.

Achish marches against Saul, but David is excused from the war on the accusation of the Philistine nobles that his loyalty to their cause cannot be trusted.

Achish had great confidence in the valour and fidelity of David ( 1 Sam.

David remained with Achish a year and four months.

9And David would strike the land and would leave neither man nor woman alive, but would take away the sheep, the oxen, the donkeys, the camels, and the garments, and come back to Achish.

Some of the Philistine names, such as Goliath, Achish, and Phicol, appear to be of non-Semitic origin, and Indo-European etymologies have been suggested.

Achish seems to have a linguistic similarity with the name Anchises ( Αγχίσης ) of ancient Greek mythology.

In his book Pharaohs and Kings, D. Rohl suggests Achish may be an abbreviation of Akishimige, a Hurrian name meaning " Gift of the Sun God ," equivalent to the name Suwardata in the Amarna Letters.

* Achish – a royal name or title in the Bible, perhaps a cognate of Anchises.

* Another king of Gath, probably grandson of the foregoing, to whom the two servants of Shimei fled.

The site is mentioned in documents from the time of Sargon II of Assyria when in 713 BCE the Assyrian king speaks of having to depose a usurper who had taken over control of the city of Ashdod and had fortified it, Gath, and Ashdod-Yam.

In later Assyrian and Babylonian texts, the name Akkad, together with Sumer, appears as part of the royal title, as in the Sumerian LUGAL KI. EN. GIR < sup > KI </ sup > URU < sup > KI </ sup > or Akkadian Šar māt Šumeri u Akkadi, translating to " king of Sumer and Akkad ".

From the Medieval Arabic king lists of both African states, allegedly copied from earlier lists in ancient Near Eastern languages it appears that the state founders claimed to be deportees of the Assyrian empire who had fled from Syria and Samaria after the defeat of the Egyptian-Assyrian army at Carchemish in 605 BCE.

Homer appears to know nothing of all these tragic occurrences, and we learn from him only that, after the death of Thyestes, Aegisthus ruled as king at Mycenae and took no part in the Trojan expedition.

Just then, Haman appears, to ask the King to hang Mordechai, but before he can make this request, King Ahasuerus asks Haman what should be done for the man that the king wishes to honor.

* an expansion of the scene in which Esther appears before the king, with a mention of God's intervention

In one notable instance, Columba appears to King Oswald of Northumbria, in a dream, and he announced the king ’ s incoming victory against King Catlon.

The following year Ragnall appears to have returned across the Irish sea intent on establishing himself as king at York.

An elven king occasionally appears among the predominantly female elves as in Denmark and Sweden.

The later history of Kent shows clear evidence of a system of joint kingship, with the kingdom being divided into east Kent and west Kent, although it appears that there generally was a dominant king.

He was a contemporary of Ibrium of Ebla who appears to have lived in the late 25th or early 24th century BC, according to the king list.

The term appears in the context of an oracle against a dead king of Babylon, who is addressed as הילל בן שחר ( hêlêl ben šāḥar ), rendered by the King James Version as " Lucifer, son of the dawn " and by others as " morning star, son of the dawn ".

He appears to have been a weak king, as his nicknames suggest.

Duncan appears to have been tánaise ríg, the king in waiting, so that far from being an abandonment of tanistry, as has sometimes been argued, his kingship was a vindication of the practice.

Minos appears in Greek literature as the king of Knossos as early as Homer's Iliad and Odyssey.

Máel Coluim appears to have kept his agreement with the late English king, which may have been renewed with the new king, Edmund having been murdered in 946 and succeeded by his brother Edred.

As had happened previously, the Lord told the king ( who appears to be a spiritual leader as well as a secular leader ) to lead the righteous Nephites out of the land of Nephi, their ancestral home for the previous 400 years, to a new place.

When Belisarius was sent back to Italy in 544 to cope with a renewal of the war with the Goths, now led by the able king Totila, Procopius appears to have no longer been on Belisarius ' staff.

For most of Pictish recorded history the kingdom of Fortriu appears dominant, so much so that king of Fortriu and king of the Picts may mean one and the same thing in the annals.

The name Stockholm first appears in historical records in letters written by Birger jarl and king Valdemar dated 1252.

From a Phoenician inscription on its lid, it appears that he was a " king of the Sidonians ," probably in the 5th century BCE, and that his mother was a priestess of ‘ Ashtart, " the goddess of the Sidonians.

Stephen's accession to the throne still needed to be ratified by the Pope, however, and Henry of Blois appears to have been responsible for ensuring that testimonials of support were sent both from Stephen's elder brother Theobald and from the French king Louis VI, to whom Stephen represented a useful balance to Angevin power in the north of France.

Neither mission was particularly successful and by the end of 1137 the king appears to have abandoned attempts to put down the rebellion.

No help was forthcoming from Stephen's brother Theobald this time either, who appears to have been preoccupied with his own problems with France — the new French king, Louis VII, had rejected his father's regional alliance, improving relations with Anjou and taking a more bellicose line with Theobald, which would result in war the following year.