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And the number of the days that David dwelt in the [a]country of the Philistines was a full year and four months.

And David and his men went up, and made a raid upon the Geshurites, and the [b]Girzites, and the Amalekites; for those nations were the inhabitants of the land, who were of old, as thou goest to Shur, even unto the land of Egypt. And David smote the land, and saved neither man nor woman alive, and took away the sheep, and the oxen, and the asses, and the camels, and the apparel; and he returned, and came to Achish.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Samuel 27:7 Hebrew field.
  2. 1 Samuel 27:8 Another reading is, Gizrites