1 Samuel 27:7

A full year. Hebrew, "days." Rashi argues in favour of its meaning some days, and Josephus says the time of David's stay in Philistia was "four months and twenty days;" but already in 1 Samuel 1:3 ; 1 Samuel 2:19 , we have had the phrase "from days day-ward in the sense of yearly, and comp. Le 1 Samuel 25:29 ; 17:10 ; also 19:2 , where the A.V. translates the Hebrew days four months as meaning "four months" only. Probably, as here, it is a year and four months, though the omission of the conjunction is a difficulty. So too for "after a time" ( 14:8 ) it should be "after a year"—Hebrew, after days.

EXPEDITIONS OF DAVID FROM ZIKLAG ( 19:8-12 ).