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1 Samuel 27:7

King James Version (KJV)

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1 Samuel 27:7

Verse 7 of 12

Scripture focus

And the time that David dwelt in the country of the Philistines was a full year and four months.

1 Samuel 27:7 — KJV

Commentary

Commentary on 1 Samuel 27:7

Theological / Devotional

A full year. Heb. yamim, literally, “days.” In Lev. 25:29 yamim, “a full year [literally, “days”],” is clearly equivalent to “a whole year [shanah, the usual word for “year”].” In 1 Sam. 1:3 Elkanah is said to have gone to Shiloh “yearly,” literally, “from days to days.” In ch. 2:19 the same idiom is translated “from year to year.”

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