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Adullam

Judean lowland (Shephelah) · Old Testament · 8 verses

Adullam was a town in the lowland of Judah with a nearby cave. David sheltered in the cave of Adullam. The name appears in Joshua, 1 Samuel, 2 Samuel and 4 more in the King James text.

About Adullam

Adullam was a town in the lowland of Judah with a nearby cave. David sheltered in the cave of Adullam.

Its place in the story

When David fled from Saul he hid in the cave of Adullam, and there his family and a band of distressed men gathered to him. It became a gathering place for those who would follow David.

Adullam in Scripture (KJV)

“The king of Libnah, one; the king of Adullam, one;”
Joshua 12:15 (KJV)
“Jarmuth, and Adullam, Socoh, and Azekah,”
Joshua 15:35 (KJV)
“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.”
1 Samuel 22:1 (KJV)
“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.”
2 Samuel 23:13 (KJV)
“Now three of the thirty captains went down to the rock to David, into the cave of Adullam; and the host of the Philistines encamped in the valley of Rephaim.”
1 Chronicles 11:15 (KJV)
“And Bethzur, and Shoco, and Adullam,”
2 Chronicles 11:7 (KJV)
“Zanoah, Adullam, and in their villages, at Lachish, and the fields thereof, at Azekah, and in the villages thereof. And they dwelt from Beersheba unto the valley of Hinnom.”
Nehemiah 11:30 (KJV)
“Yet will I bring an heir unto thee, O inhabitant of Mareshah: he shall come unto Adullam the glory of Israel.”
Micah 1:15 (KJV)

Where it leads

The band that gathered to David at Adullam, the outcasts and the troubled, is a picture of those Christ gathers to himself.

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Where is Adullam in the Bible?

Adullam was a town in the lowland of Judah with a nearby cave. David sheltered in the cave of Adullam. The name appears in Joshua, 1 Samuel, 2 Samuel and 4 more in the King James text.

What happened at Adullam?

When David fled from Saul he hid in the cave of Adullam, and there his family and a band of distressed men gathered to him. It became a gathering place for those who would follow David.

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