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1 Samuel 27:7

And David was living in the land of the Philistines for the space of a year and four months.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - David;   Gath;   Philistines;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Philistines, the;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Achish;   Gath;   Gittith;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - David;   Palestine;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Prayer;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Robbery;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Nehemiah, the Book of;   Robbery;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Gath;   Samuel, Books of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - David;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Achish;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Zik'lag;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Hebrew Monarchy, the;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Abimelech;   Alliance;   David;   Zebah and Zalmunna;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
The length of time that David stayed in Philistine territory amounted to a year and four months.
Hebrew Names Version
The number of the days that David lived in the country of the Pelishtim was a full year and four months.
King James Version
And the time that David dwelt in the country of the Philistines was a full year and four months.
Lexham English Bible
The number of days that David lived in the countryside of the Philistines was one year and four months.
English Standard Version
And the number of the days that David lived in the country of the Philistines was a year and four months.
New Century Version
David lived in the Philistine land a year and four months.
New English Translation
The length of time that David lived in the Philistine countryside was a year and four months.
Amplified Bible
The number of days that David lived in the country of the Philistines was a year and four months.
New American Standard Bible
The number of days that David lived in the country of the Philistines was a year and four months.
Geneva Bible (1587)
And the time that Dauid dwelt in the countrey of the Philistims, was foure moneths and certaine dayes.
Legacy Standard Bible
And the number of days that David lived in the country of the Philistines was a year and four months.
Contemporary English Version
David was in Philistia for a year and four months.
Complete Jewish Bible
After David had been living in the country of the P'lishtim for a year and four months,
Darby Translation
And the time that David abode in the country of the Philistines was a year and four months.
Easy-to-Read Version
David lived with the Philistines one year and four months.
George Lamsa Translation
And the time that David dwelt in the land of the Philistines was a full year and four months.
Good News Translation
David lived in Philistia for sixteen months.
Literal Translation
And the number of days which David lived in the field of the Philistines was a year and four months.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
The tyme that Dauid dwelt in the londe of the Philistynes, is foure monethes.
American Standard Version
And the number of the days that David dwelt in the country of the Philistines was a full year and four months.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And the tyme that Dauid dwelt in the countrey of the Philistines, was foure monethes, and certaine dayes.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And the number of the days that David dwelt in the country of the Philistines was a full year and four months.
King James Version (1611)
And the time that Dauid dwelt in the countrey of the Philistines, was a full yeere, and foure moneths.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And the number of the days that David dwelt in the country of the Philistines was four months.
English Revised Version
And the number of the days that David dwelt in the country of the Philistines was a full year and four months.
Berean Standard Bible
And the time that David lived in Philistine territory amounted to a year and four months.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Forsothe the noumbre of daies, in whiche Dauid dwellide in the cuntrei of Filisteis, was of foure monethis.
Young's Literal Translation
And the number of the days which David hath dwelt in the field of the Philistines [is] days and four months;
Update Bible Version
And the number of the days that David dwelt in the country of the Philistines was a full year and four months.
Webster's Bible Translation
And the time that David dwelt in the country of the Philistines was a full year and four months.
World English Bible
The number of the days that David lived in the country of the Philistines was a full year and four months.
New King James Version
Now the time that David dwelt in the country of the Philistines was one full year and four months.
New Living Translation
and they lived there among the Philistines for a year and four months.
New Life Bible
David lived in the country of the Philistines for a year and four months.
New Revised Standard
The length of time that David lived in the country of the Philistines was one year and four months.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And the number of the days that David dwelt in the country of the Philistines became a year and four months.
Douay-Rheims Bible
And the time that David dwelt in the country of the Philistines, was four months.
Revised Standard Version
And the number of the days that David dwelt in the country of the Philistines was a year and four months.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
The number of days that David lived in the country of the Philistines was a year and four months.

Contextual Overview

1 And David said to himself, Some day death will come to me by the hand of Saul: the only thing for me to do is to get away into the land of the Philistines; then Saul will give up hope of taking me in any part of the land of Israel: and so I may be able to get away from him. 2 So David and the six hundred men who were with him went over to Achish, the son of Maoch, king of Gath. 3 And David and his men were living with Achish at Gath; every man had his family with him, and David had his two wives, Ahinoam of Jezreel, and Abigail of Carmel, who had been the wife of Nabal. 4 And Saul, hearing that David had gone to Gath, went after him no longer. 5 Then David said to Achish, If now I have grace in your eyes, let me have a place in one of the smaller towns of your land, to be my living-place; for it is not right for your servant to be living with you in the king's town. 6 So Achish straight away gave him Ziklag: and for that reason Ziklag has been the property of the kings of Judah to this day. 7 And David was living in the land of the Philistines for the space of a year and four months.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

the time: Heb. the number of days

a full year: Heb. a year of days, 1 Samuel 29:3

Cross-References

Deuteronomy 33:1
Now this is the blessing which Moses, the man of God, gave to the children of Israel before his death.
Joshua 6:26
Then Joshua gave the people orders with an oath, saying, Let that man be cursed before the Lord who puts his hand to the building up of this town: with the loss of his first son will he put the first stone of it in place, and with the loss of his youngest son he will put up its doors.
1 Samuel 24:19
If a man comes across his hater, will he let him get away safe? so may you be rewarded by the Lord for what you have done for me today.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And the time that David dwelt in the country of the Philistines,.... At Gath and Ziklag:

was a full year and four months; or "days and four months"; days being sometimes put for a year, Judges 17:10; though some interpret it not of a year, but of some few days out of the fifth month, besides the four months; so Jarchi and Kimchi; and Josephus h makes his abode to be four months and twenty days; but, according to the Septuagint and Vulgate Latin versions, it was only four months; and so it may be rendered, "days, that is, four months"; for according to the Jewish chronology i Samuel died four months before Saul, and this flight of David was after the death of Samuel, and when Saul died he left the land of the Philistines, and took the throne of Judah;

Judges 17:10- :.

h Antiqu. l. 6. c. 13. sect. 10. i Sepher Olam Rabba c. 13. p. 37.


 
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