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Hebrew Names Version

1 Samuel 27:7

The number of the days that David lived in the country of the Pelishtim was a full 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.
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.
Bible in Basic English
And David was living in the land of the Philistines for the space of a 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 David said in his heart, I shall now perish one day by the hand of Sha'ul: there is nothing better for me than that I should escape into the land of the Pelishtim; and Sha'ul will despair of me, to seek me any more in all the borders of Yisra'el: so shall I escape out of his hand. 2 David arose, and passed over, he and the six hundred men who were with him, to Akhish the son of Ma`okh, king of Gat. 3 David lived with Akhish at Gat, he and his men, every man with his household, even David with his two wives, Achino'am the Yizre`elite, and Avigayil the Karmelite, Naval's wife. 4 It was told Sha'ul that David was fled to Gat: and he sought no more again for him. 5 David said to Akhish, If now I have found favor in your eyes, let them give me a place in one of the cities in the country, that I may dwell there: for why should your servant dwell in the royal city with you? 6 Then Akhish gave him Tziklag that day: why Tziklag pertains to the kings of Yehudah to this day. 7 The number of the days that David lived in the country of the Pelishtim was a full 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
This is the blessing, with which Moshe the man of God blessed the children of Yisra'el before his death.
Joshua 6:26
Yehoshua charged them with an oath at that time, saying, Cursed be the man before the LORD, that rises up and builds this city Yericho: with the loss of his firstborn shall he lay the foundation of it, and with the loss of his youngest son shall he set up the gates of it.
1 Samuel 24:19
For if a man finds his enemy, will he let him go away unharmed? Therefore may the LORD reward you good for that which you have done to me this day.

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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