1 Samuel 22:1-2

David at the Cave of Adullam

¹ David departed from there and escaped to _h the cave of _i Adullam. And when his brothers and all his father's house heard it, they went down there to him. ² _j And everyone who was in distress, and everyone who was in debt, and everyone who was bitter in soul, ₁ gathered to him. And he became captain over them. And there were with him _k about four hundred men.

1. Cross References
   Psalms 57:1
   Be merciful to me, O God, be merciful to me, for in you my soul takes refuge; in the shadow of your wings I will take refuge, till the storms of destruction pass by.
   Psalms 142:1
   With my voice I cry out to the Lord ; with my voice I plead for mercy to the Lord.
   
2. Cross References
   2 Samuel 23:13
   And three of the thirty chief men went down and came about harvest time to David at the cave of Adullam, when a band of Philistines was encamped in the Valley of Rephaim.
   1 Chronicles 11:15
   Three of the thirty chief men went down to the rock to David at the cave of Adullam, when the army of Philistines was encamped in the Valley of Rephaim.
   
3. Cross References
   Judges 9:4
   And they gave him seventy pieces of silver out of the house of Baal-berith with which Abimelech hired worthless and reckless fellows, who followed him.
   Judges 11:3
   Then Jephthah fled from his brothers and lived in the land of Tob, and worthless fellows collected around Jephthah and went out with him.
   
4. Cross References
   1 Samuel 23:13
   Then David and his men, who were about six hundred, arose and departed from Keilah, and they went wherever they could go. When Saul was told that David had escaped from Keilah, he gave up the expedition.
   1 Samuel 25:13
   And David said to his men, "Every man strap on his sword!" And every man of them strapped on his sword. David also strapped on his sword. And about four hundred men went up after David, while two hundred remained with the baggage.