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

New Living Translation
and they lived there among the Philistines for a 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.

Berean Standard Bible
And the time that David lived in Philistine territory amounted to a year and four months.

King James Bible
And the time that David dwelt 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 American Standard Bible
The number of days that David lived in the country of the Philistines was a year and four months.

NASB 1995
The number of days that David lived in the country of the Philistines was a year and four months.

NASB 1977
And the number of days that David lived in the country of the Philistines was a year and four months.

Legacy Standard Bible
And the number of days that David lived in the country of the Philistines 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.

Christian Standard Bible
The length of time that David stayed in Philistine territory amounted to a year and four months.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
The time that David stayed in the Philistine territory amounted to a 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.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
And the number of days when David dwelt in the land of the Philistines was a season to season and four months

Brenton Septuagint Translation
And the number of the days that David dwelt in the country of the Philistines was four months.

Contemporary English Version
David was in Philistia for a year and four months.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And the time 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.

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

Good News Translation
David lived in Philistia for sixteen months.

International Standard Version
David lived in Philistine territory for a year and four months.

JPS Tanakh 1917
And the number of the days that David dwelt in the country of the Philistines was a full year and four months.

Literal Standard Version
And the number of the days which David has dwelt in the field of the Philistines [is one year] of days and four months;

Majority Standard Bible
And the time that David lived in Philistine territory amounted to a year and four months.

New American Bible
In all, David lived a year and four months in Philistine territory.

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

New Revised Standard Version
The length of time that David lived in the country of the Philistines was one year and four months.

New Heart English Bible
The number of the days that David lived 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;

Additional Translations ...
Audio Bible



Context
David and the Philistines
6That day Achish gave him Ziklag, and to this day it still belongs to the kings of Judah. 7And the time that David lived in Philistine territory amounted to a year and four months. 8Now David and his men went up and raided the Geshurites, the Girzites, and the Amalekites. (From ancient times these people had inhabited the land extending to Shur and Egypt.)…

Cross References
1 Samuel 29:3
Then the commanders of the Philistines asked, "What about these Hebrews?" Achish replied, "Is this not David, the servant of King Saul of Israel? He has been with me all these days, even years, and from the day he defected until today 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 people had inhabited the land extending to Shur and Egypt.)


Treasury of Scripture

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

the time [heb] the number of days

1 Samuel 29:3
Then said the princes of the Philistines, What do these Hebrews here? And Achish said unto the princes of the Philistines, Is not this David, the servant of Saul the king of Israel, which hath been with me these days, or these years, and I have found no fault in him since he fell unto me unto this day?

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1 Samuel 27
1. Saul, hearing David to be in Gath, seeks no more for him
5. David begs Ziklag of Achish
8. He, invading other countries, persuades Achish he fought against Judah.














(7) A full year and four months.--Keil calls attention to the exact statement of time here as a proof of the historical character of the whole narrative. The Hebrew expression, translated "a year," is a singular one: yamim--literally, days--a collective term, used in Leviticus 25:29, 1Samuel 1:3; 1Samuel 2:19, &c., to signify a term or period of days which amounted to a full year. This year and four months were among the darkest days of David's life. He was sorely tried, it is true; but he had adopted the very course his bitterest foes would have wished him to select. In open arms, apparently leagued with the deadliest foes of Israel, like an Italian condottiere or captain of free lances of the Middle Ages, he had taken service and accepted the wages of that very Philistine city whose champion he once had slain in the morning of his career. At last his enemies at the court of Saul had reason when they spoke of him as a traitor. From the curt recital in this chapter, which deals with the saddest portion of David's career, we shall see that while he apparently continued to make common cause with the enemies of his race, he still used his power to help, and not to injure, his countrymen; but the price he paid for his patriotism was a life of falsehood, stained, too, with deeds of fierce cruelty, shocking even in these rough, half-barbarous times.

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).

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
And the time
הַיָּמִ֔ים (hay·yā·mîm)
Article | Noun - masculine plural
Strong's 3117: A day

that
אֲשֶׁר־ (’ă·šer-)
Pronoun - relative
Strong's 834: Who, which, what, that, when, where, how, because, in order that

David
דָּוִ֖ד (dā·wiḏ)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 1732: David -- perhaps 'beloved one', a son of Jesse

lived
יָשַׁ֥ב (yā·šaḇ)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 3427: To sit down, to dwell, to remain, to settle, to marry

in Philistine
פְלִשְׁתִּ֑ים (p̄ə·liš·tîm)
Noun - proper - masculine plural
Strong's 6430: Philistines -- inhabitants of Philistia

territory
בִּשְׂדֵ֣ה (biś·ḏêh)
Preposition-b | Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 7704: Field, land

amounted to
וַֽיְהִי֙ (way·hî)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 1961: To fall out, come to pass, become, be

a year
יָמִ֖ים (yā·mîm)
Noun - masculine plural
Strong's 3117: A day

and four
וְאַרְבָּעָ֥ה (wə·’ar·bā·‘āh)
Conjunctive waw | Number - masculine singular
Strong's 702: Four

months.
חֳדָשִֽׁים׃ (ḥo·ḏā·šîm)
Noun - masculine plural
Strong's 2320: The new moon, a month


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