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Clementine Latin Vulgate
3 Regum 27:7
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Fuit autem numerus dierum quibus habitavit David in regione Philisthinorum, quatuor mensium.
Fuit autem numerus dierum, quibus habitavit David in regione Philisthinorum, annus et quattuor menses.
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.
