1 Samuel 22:4
And he took them to the king of Moab and they went on living with him while David was in his safe place.
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1 Samuel 23:1And they sent word to David, saying, The Philistines are fighting against Keilah and taking the grain from the grain-floors.
2 Samuel 24:11And David got up in the morning; now the word of the Lord had come to the prophet Gad, David's seer, saying,
1 Chronicles 12:16And some of the children of Benjamin and Judah came to David in his strong place.
1 Chronicles 29:29Now all the acts of David, first and last, are recorded in the words of Samuel the seer, and the words of Nathan the prophet, and the words of Gad the seer;
Nehemiah 6:11And I said, Am I the sort of man to go in flight? what man, in my position, would go into the Temple to keep himself safe? I will not go in.
Isaiah 8:12Do not say, It is holy, about everything of which this people says, It is holy; and do not be in fear of what they go in fear of.
Matthew Henry on 1 Samuel 22:2-6
David in the Cave of Adullam. ( b. c. 1057.) 1 David therefore departed thence, and escaped to the cave Adullam: and when his brethren and all his father's house heard it, they went down thither to him. 2 And every one that was in distress, and every one that was in debt, and every one that was discontented, gathered themselves unto him; and he became a captain over them: and there were with him about four hundred men. 3 And David went thence to Mizpeh of Moab: and he said unto the king of Moab, Let my father and… Read the whole commentary →