2 Samuel 23:13

At harvest time, three of the thirty chief men went down to David at the cave of Adullam, while a company of Philistines was encamped in the Valley of Rephaim.

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In The King James Version

And three of the thirty chief went down, and came to David in the harvest time unto the cave of Adullam: and the troop of the Philistines pitched in the valley of Rephaim.

In Context

12But Shammah took his stand in the middle of the field, defended it, and struck down the Philistines. So the LORD brought about a great victory.

14At that time David was in the stronghold, and the garrison of the Philistines was at Bethlehem.

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Cross References

Joshua 15:35Jarmuth, Adullam, Socoh, Azekah,

2 Samuel 5:18Now the Philistines had come and spread out in the Valley of Rephaim.

1 Chronicles 11:15Three of the thirty chief men went down to David, to the rock at the cave of Adullam, while a company of Philistines was encamped in the Valley of Rephaim.

Isaiah 17:5as the reaper gathers the standing grain and harvests the ears with his arm, as one gleans heads of grain in the Valley of Rephaim.

Matthew Henry on 2 Samuel 23:9-39

David's Mighty Men. ( b. c. 1054.) 8 These be the names of the mighty men whom David had: The Tachmonite that sat in the seat, chief among the captains; the same was Adino the Eznite: he lift up his spear against eight hundred, whom he slew at one time. 9 And after him was Eleazar the son of Dodo the Ahohite, one of the three mighty men with David, when they defied the Philistines that were there gathered together to battle, and the men of Israel were gone away: 10 He arose, and smote the Philistines until his… Read the whole commentary →

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