1 Samuel 22:1
Dauid therefore departed thence, and saued him selfe in the caue of Adullam: and when his brethren and all his fathers house heard it, they went downe thither to him.
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Genesis 38:1And at that time Iudah went downe from his brethren, and turned in to a man called Hirah an Adullamite.
Joshua 15:35Iarmuth, and Adullam, Socoh, and Azekah,
1 Samuel 24:4And hee came to the sheepecoates by the way where there was a caue, and Saul went in to do his easement: and Dauid and his men sate in the inward parts of the caue.
1 Chronicles 11:15And three of the thirtie captaines went to a rocke to Dauid, into the caue of Adullam. And the armie of the Philistims camped in the valley of Rephaim.
Psalms 57:1To him that excelleth. Destroy not. A Psalme of David on Michtam. When he fled from Saul in the cave. Have mercie vpon me, O God, haue mercie vpon me: for my soule trusteth in thee, and in the shadowe of thy wings wil I trust, till these afflictions ouerpasse.
Micah 1:3For beholde, the Lord commeth out of his place, and will come downe, and tread vpon the hie 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 →