“The number of the days that David lived in the country of the Philistines was a full year and four months.”

Reading this verse in context

This page shows one verse on its own, which is rarely how it was written. 1 Samuel 27 contains 12 verses, and the sentences either side usually decide what this one means. Read the whole chapter before you quote it.

Text: World English Bible, Protestant edition (engwebp), eBible.org — public domain.