1 Samuel 27:7

27:7 The length of time ¹  that David lived in the Philistine countryside was a year ²  and four months.

1 Samuel 31:13

31:13 They took the bones and buried them under the tamarisk tree at Jabesh; then they fasted for seven days.

1 Samuel 2:31

2:31 In fact, days are coming when I will remove your strength ³  and the strength ⁴  of your father’s house. There will not be an old man in your house!

1 Samuel 13:8

13:8 He waited for seven days, the time period indicated by Samuel. ⁵  But Samuel did not come to Gilgal, and the army began to abandon Saul. ⁶ 

1 Samuel 10:8

10:8 You will go down to Gilgal before me. I am going to join you there to offer burnt offerings and to make peace offerings. You should wait for seven days, until I arrive and tell you what to do.”

1 Samuel 11:3

11:3 The elders of Jabesh said to him, “Leave us alone for seven days so that we can send messengers throughout the territory of Israel. If there is no one who can deliver us, we will come out voluntarily to you.”

1 Samuel 30:12

30:12 They gave him a slice of pressed figs and two bunches of raisins to eat. This greatly refreshed him, ⁷  for he had not eaten food or drunk water for three days and three nights.

1 Samuel 29:3

29:3 The leaders of the Philistines asked, “What about these Hebrews?” Achish said to the leaders of the Philistines, “Isn’t this David, the servant of King Saul of Israel, who has been with me for quite some time? ⁸  I have found no fault with him from the day of his defection until the present time!” ⁹ 

[27:7]  ¹ tn Heb “the number of the days.”

[27:7]  ² 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.

[2:31]  ³ tn Heb “chop off your arm.” The arm here symbolizes strength and activity.

[2:31]  ⁴ tn Heb “arm.”

[13:8]  ⁵ tn This apparently refers to the instructions given by Samuel in 1 Sam 10:8. If so, several years had passed. On the relationship between chs. 10 and 13, see V. P. Long, The Art of Biblical History (FCI), 201-23.

[13:8]  ⁶ tn Heb “dispersed from upon him”; NAB, NRSV “began to slip away.”

[30:12]  ⁷ tn Heb “his spirit returned to him.”

[29:3]  ⁹ tn Heb “these days or these years.”

[29:3]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “from the day of his falling [away] until this day.”