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Chapter 22

David Flees. David left and escaped to the cave of Adullam. When his brothers and all of his father’s household heard, they went down to him there. Everyone who was in distress, everyone who was in debt, and everyone who was discontented gathered around him, and he became their leader. He had about four hundred men with him.[a]

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Samuel 22:2 David, himself a fugitive, gathers around him a motley crew of followers, who somehow remain faithful to him and who become military leaders and “mighty men” (2 Sam 23:8).