1 Samuel 27:7
Other Translations of 1 Samuel 27:7
New International Version
7 David lived in Philistine territory a 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.
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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.