1 Samuel 27:7

Louis Segond

Le temps que David demeura dans le pays des Philistins fut d'un an et quatre mois.

Parallel Translations

La Bible Ostervald (1996)
Et le temps que David demeura au pays des Philistins fut d'un an et quatre mois.

Darby's French Translation
Et le nombre des jours que David habita dans la campagne des Philistins fut d'un an et quatre mois.

La Bible David Martin (1744)
Le nombre des jours que David demeura au pays des Philistins fut un an et quatre mois.

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

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.