1 Samuel 27:7
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New International Version (©2011)
David lived in Philistine territory a year and four months.

New Living Translation (©2007)
and they lived there among the Philistines for a year and four months.

English Standard Version (©2001)
And the number of the days that David lived 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.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
And the time that David dwelt in the country of the Philistines was a full year and four months.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
The time that David stayed in the Philistine territory amounted to a year and four months.

International Standard Version (©2012)
David lived in Philistine territory for a year and four months.

NET Bible (©2006)
The length of time that David lived in the Philistine countryside was a year and four months.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
David stayed in Philistine territory for one year and four months.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
And the time that David dwelt in the country of the Philistines was a full year and four months.

American King James Version
And the time that David dwelled in the country of the Philistines was a full year and four months.

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.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And the time that David dwelt in the country of the Philistines, was four months.

Darby Bible Translation
And the time that David abode in the country of the Philistines was a year and 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.

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.

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;

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

27:1-7 Unbelief is a sin that easily besets even good men, when without are fightings, and within are fears; and it is a hard matter to get over them. Lord, increase our faith! We may blush to think that the word of a Philistine should go further than the word of an Israelite, and that the city of Gath should be a place of refuge for a good man, when the cities of Israel refuse him a safe abode. David gained a comfortable settlement, not only at a distance from Gath, but bordering upon Israel, where he might keep up a correspondence with his own countrymen.

Pulpit Commentary

Verse 7. - A full year. Hebrew, "days." Rashi argues in favour of its meaning some days, and Josephus says the time of David's stay in Philistia was "four months and twenty days;" but already in 1 Samuel 1:3; 1 Samuel 2:19, we have had the phrase "from days day-ward in the sense of yearly, and comp. Leviticus 25:29; Judges 17:10; also Judges 19:2, where the A.V. translates the Hebrew days four months as meaning "four months" only. Probably, as here, it is a year and four months, though the omission of the conjunction is a difficulty. So too for "after a time" (Judges 14:8) it should be "after a year" - Hebrew, after days. EXPEDITIONS OF DAVID FROM ZIKLAG (vers. 8-12).

Gill's Exposition of the Entire 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; See Gill on 1 Samuel 25:1.

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

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David and the Philistines
…6Then Achish gave him Ziklag that day: why Ziklag pertains to the kings of Judah to this day. 7And the time that David dwelled in the country of the Philistines was a full year and four months. 8And David and his men went up, and invaded the Geshurites, and the Gezrites, and the Amalekites: for those nations were of old the inhabitants of the land, as you go to Shur, even to the land of Egypt. …

1 Samuel 29:3 The commanders of the Philistines asked, "What about these Hebrews?" Achish replied, "Is this not David, who was an officer of Saul king of Israel? He has already been with me for over a year, and from the day he left Saul until now, I have found no fault in him."
1 Samuel 27:8 Now David and his men went up and raided the Geshurites, the Girzites and the Amalekites. (From ancient times these peoples had lived in the land extending to Shur and Egypt.)