1 Samuel 22:1
Then David went away from there, and he fled to the cave of Adullam. And when his brothers and all of his father’s house had heard of it, they descended to him there.
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Genesis 38:1About the same time, Judah, descending from his brothers, turned toward an Adullamite man, named Hirah.
Joshua 15:35and Jarmuth and Adullam, Socoh and Azekah,
1 Samuel 24:4And he arrived at the sheepfolds, which presented themselves along the way. And a cave was in that place, which Saul entered, so that he might ease his bowels. But David and his men were hiding in the interior part of the cave.
1 Chronicles 11:15Then three from the thirty leaders descended to the rock where David was, to the cave of Adullam, when the Philistines had made camp in the Valley of the Rephaim.
Psalms 57:1Unto the end. May you not destroy. Of David, with the inscription of a title.
Micah 1:3For behold, the Lord will go forth from his place. And he will descend, and he will trample over 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 →