1 Samuel 22:1
So David went away from there and took cover in a strong place at Adullam; and his brothers and all his father's people, hearing of it, went down to him there.
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Genesis 38:1Now at that time, Judah went away from his brothers and became the friend of a man of Adullam named Hirah.
Joshua 15:35Jarmuth, and Adullam, Socoh, and Azekah;
1 Samuel 24:4\24:3\And on the way he came to a place where sheep were kept, where there was a hollow in the rock; and Saul went in for a private purpose. Now David and his men were in the deepest part of the hollow.
1 Chronicles 11:15And three of the thirty went down to David, to the rock, into the strong place of Adullam; and the army of the Philistines had taken up their position in the valley of Rephaim.
Psalms 57:1To the chief music-maker; put to Al-tashheth. Michtam. Of David. When he went in flight from Saul, in the hole of the rock.
Micah 1:3For see, the Lord is coming out from his place, and will come down, stepping on the high places of the earth.
Matthew Henry on 1 Samuel 22:1
David, being driven from Achish, returns into the land of Israel to be hunted by Saul. I. David sets up his standard in the cave of Adullam, entertains his relations ( ver. 1 ), enlists soldiers ( ver. 2 ), but removes his aged parents to a more quiet settlement ( ver. 3, 4 ), and has the prophet Gad for his counsellor, ver. 5 . Saul resolves to pursue him and find him out, complains of his servants and Jonathan ( ver. 6-8 ), and, finding by Doeg's information that Ahimelech had been kind to David, he ordered him… Read the whole commentary →