That day Achish gave Ziklag(A) to him, and it still belongs to the kings of Judah today. The length of time that David stayed in Philistine territory amounted to a year and four months.(B)

David and his men went up and raided the Geshurites,(C) the Girzites,[a] and the Amalekites.(D) From ancient times they had been the inhabitants of the region through Shur(E) as far as the land of Egypt.

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Footnotes

  1. 27:8 Alt Hb tradition reads Gezerites

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