1 Samuel 27:7
And the time that David dwelt in the country of the Philistines was a full year and four months.
1 Samuel 27:7 in other translations
| BSB | And the time that David lived in Philistine territory amounted to a year and four months. |
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| WEB | The number of the days that David lived in the country of the Philistines was a full year and four months. |
| ASV | And the number of the days that David dwelt in the country of the Philistines was a full year and four months. |
| YLT | And the number of the days which David hath dwelt in the field of the Philistines is days and four months; |
| DARBY | And the time that David abode in the country of the Philistines was a year and four months. |
| BBE | And David was living in the land of the Philistines for the space of a year and four months. |
| Webster | And the time that David dwelt in the country of the Philistines was a full year and four months. |
What does 1 Samuel 27:7 mean?
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on 1 Samuel 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…
1 Samuel 27:7 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for 1 Samuel 27:7
- 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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Context
- 1 Samuel 27:6
Then Achish gave him Ziklag that day: wherefore Ziklag pertaineth unto the kings of Judah unto this day.
- 1 Samuel 27:7
And the time that David dwelt in the country of the Philistines was a full year and four months.
- 1 Samuel 27:8
And 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 thou goest to Shur, even unto the land of Egypt.
1 Samuel 27:7 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Y fué el número de los días que David habitó en la tierra de los Filisteos, cuatro meses y algunos días. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Et le nombre des jours que David habita dans la campagne des Philistins fut d’un an et quatre mois. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Und die Zahl der Tage, welche David im Gefilde der Philister wohnte, war ein Jahr und vier Monate. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Fuit autem numerus dierum quibus habitavit David in regione Philisthinorum, quatuor mensium. |