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David at the Cave of Adullam. 22 So David left Gath and escaped to the cave of Adullam. Soon his brothers and all his other relatives joined him there. 2 Then others began coming—men who were in trouble or in debt or who were just discontented—until David was the captain of about 400 men.
- 1 Samuel 29
The Philistines Reject David - The entire Philistine army...
- 1 Samuel 29
And the Lord said to David, “Go and attack the Philistines and save Keilah.” 3 But David's men said to him, “Behold, we are afraid here in Judah; how much more then if we go to Keilah against the armies of the Philistines?” 4 Then David inquired of the Lord again.
11 So David and his men got up early in the morning to go back to the land of the Philistines, and the Philistines went up to Jezreel. David Destroys the Amalekites. 30 David and his men reached Ziklag(O) on the third day. Now the Amalekites(P) had raided the Negev and Ziklag.
David therefore departed there, and escaped to the cave Adullam: and when his brothers and all his father's house heard it, they went down thither to him. Nave's Topical Index. 2 Samuel 23:13
David and his forces, whose help was rejected by the Philistines when they gathered to fight Israel, travel back home to Ziklag (1Samuel 29). When he arrives in the city, he finds it burned down by the Amalekites.
David therefore departed there, and escaped to the cave Adullam: and when his brothers and all his father's house heard it…. David had strangled a lion, slain a giant, and overcome two hundred Philistines; but he is himself overcome by his needless fear.
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David had left the few servants who accompanied him in his flight somewhere in the neighbourhood, as we may gather from 1 Samuel 21:2, because he wished to converse with the high priest alone.