1 Samuel 27:7

⁷ David lived in Philistine territory a year and four months.

1 Samuel 27

Other Translations of 1 Samuel 27:7

King James Version

⁷ And the time the time: Heb. the number of days that David dwelt in the country of the Philistines was a full year and four months.

English Standard Version

⁷ And the number of the days that David lived in the country of the Philistines was a year and four months.

The Message

⁷ David lived in Philistine country a year and four months.

New King James Version

⁷ Now the time that David dwelt in the country of the Philistines was one full year and four months.

New Living Translation

⁷ and they lived there among the Philistines for a year and four months.

Matthew Henry's Commentary on 1 Samuel 27:7

Commentary on 1 Samuel 27:1-7

(Read 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 settlement, not only at a distance from Gath, but bordering upon Israel, where he might keep up a correspondence with his own countrymen.