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13 Once during the harvest, when David was at the cave of Adullam, the Philistine army was camped in the valley of Rephaim. The Three (who were among the Thirty—an elite group among David’s fighting men) went down to meet him there.

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18 The Philistines arrived and spread out across the valley of Rephaim.

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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.

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15 O people of Mareshah,[a]
    I will bring a conqueror to capture your town.
And the leaders[b] of Israel
    will go to Adullam.

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Footnotes

  1. 1:15a Mareshah sounds like the Hebrew term for “conqueror.”
  2. 1:15b Hebrew the glory.

The whole land will look like a grainfield
    after the harvesters have gathered the grain.
It will be desolate,
    like the fields in the valley of Rephaim after the harvest.

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The Philistines arrived and made a raid in the valley of Rephaim.

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15 Once when David was at the rock near the cave of Adullam, the Philistine army was camped in the valley of Rephaim. The Three (who were among the Thirty—an elite group among David’s fighting men) went down to meet him there. 16 David was staying in the stronghold at the time, and a Philistine detachment had occupied the town of Bethlehem.

17 David remarked longingly to his men, “Oh, how I would love some of that good water from the well by the gate in Bethlehem.” 18 So the Three broke through the Philistine lines, drew some water from the well by the gate in Bethlehem, and brought it back to David. But David refused to drink it. Instead, he poured it out as an offering to the Lord. 19 “God forbid that I should drink this!” he exclaimed. “This water is as precious as the blood of these men[a] who risked their lives to bring it to me.” So David did not drink it. These are examples of the exploits of the Three.

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Footnotes

  1. 11:19 Hebrew Shall I drink the lifeblood of these men?

22 But after a while the Philistines returned and again spread out across the valley of Rephaim.

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35 Jarmuth, Adullam, Socoh, Azekah,

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15 The king of Libnah
The king of Adullam

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