2 Samuel 24:8

So when they had gone through all the land, they came to Jerusalem at the end of nine months and twenty days.

Ver. 8. At the end of nine months and twenty days.] So long lay David in his sin unrepented of. It hath before been noted that God's children may not only be drenched in the waves of sin, but lie in them for the time; and perhaps sink twice to the bottom, &c.