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The length of time[a] that David lived in the Philistine countryside was a year[b] and four months.

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  1. 1 Samuel 27:7 tn Heb “the number of the days.”
  2. 1 Samuel 27:7 tn Heb “days.” The plural of the word “day” is sometimes used idiomatically to refer specifically to a year. In addition to this occurrence in v. 7 see also 1 Sam 1:3, 21; 2:19; 20:6; Lev 25:29; Judg 17:10.