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The length of time that David lived in the country of the Philistines was one year and four months.

Now David and his men went up and made raids on the Geshurites, the Girzites, and the Amalekites; for these were the landed settlements from Telam[a] on the way to Shur and on to the land of Egypt. David struck the land, leaving neither man nor woman alive, but took away the sheep, the oxen, the donkeys, the camels, and the clothing, and came back to Achish.

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  1. 1 Samuel 27:8 Compare Gk 15.4: Heb from of old

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