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King James Bible - 1 Samuel 27:7

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SEV Biblia, Chapter 27:7

Y fue el número de los días que David habitó en la tierra de los filisteos, cuatro meses y algunos días.

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John Gill's Bible Commentary

Ver. 7. 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, ( 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 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 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; (see Gill on “ 1 Samuel 25:1”).

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Matthew Henry Commentary

Verses 1-7 - Unbelief is a sin that easily besets even good men, when without ar fightings, and within are fears; and it is a hard matter to get ove 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 tha 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 comfortabl settlement, not only at a distance from Gath, but bordering upo Israel, where he might keep up a correspondence with his ow countrymen.

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Original Hebrew

ויהי 1961 מספר 4557 הימים 3117 אשׁר 834 ישׁב 3427 דוד 1732 בשׂדה 7704 פלשׁתים 6430 ימים 3117 וארבעה 702 חדשׁים׃ 2320