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1 Samuel 27:7

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What does 1 Samuel 27:7 say?

The American Standard Version records this verse as: “And the number of the days that David dwelt in the country of the Philistines was a full year and four months.” Read the surrounding verses and the named sources below before drawing broader conclusions.

The verse

And the number of the days that David dwelt in the country of the Philistines was a full year and four months.
1 Samuel 27:7 — American Standard Version

Context — 1 Samuel 27

American Standard Version (1901) — public domain. Click any verse for its study page.
4And it was told Saul that David was fled to Gath: and he sought no more again for him.
5And David said unto Achish, If now I have found favor in thine eyes, let them give me a place in one of the cities in the country, that I may dwell there: for why should thy servant dwell in the royal city with thee?
6Then Achish gave him Ziklag that day: wherefore Ziklag pertaineth unto the kings of Judah unto this day.
7And the number of the days that David dwelt in the country of the Philistines was a full year and four months.
8And David and his men went up, and made a raid upon the Geshurites, and the Girzites, and the Amalekites; for those [nations] were the inhabitants of the land, who were of old, as thou goest to Shur, even unto the land of Egypt.
9And David smote the land, and saved neither man nor woman alive, and took away the sheep, and the oxen, and the asses, and the camels, and the apparel; and he returned, and came to Achish.
10And Achish said, Against whom have ye made a raid to-day? And David said, Against the South of Judah, and against the South of the Jerahmeelites, and against the South of the Kenites.
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What do historical commentaries say?

John Gill's Exposition
John Gill (1697–1771) · Exposition of the Old and New Testament · 18th-century historical commentary
“And the time that David dwelt in the country of the Philistines, etc.] At Gath and Ziklag: was a full year and four months; or “days and four months”; days being sometimes put for a year, (<071710>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 f534 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 f535 Samuel died four months before Saul, and this flight of David was after the death of Samuel, and…”
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Treasury of Scriptural Knowledge
R. A. Torrey and contributors · The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge · Cross-reference reference work
“the time: Heb. the number of days a full year: Heb. a year of days, Sa1 29:3 1 Kings (1 Samuel) 27:8”
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