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.
David
1 Samuel 21:10-15 And David arose and fled that day for fear of Saul, and went to Achish …
Psalm 34:1 I will bless the LORD at all times: his praise shall continually be in my mouth.
Psalm 57:1 Be merciful to me, O God, be merciful to me: for my soul trusts in …
the cave
Joshua 12:15 The king of Libnah, one; the king of Adullam, one;
Joshua 15:35 Jarmuth, and Adullam, Socoh, and Azekah,
2 Samuel 23:13,14 And three of the thirty chief went down, and came to David in the …
1 Chronicles 11:15 Now three of the thirty captains went down to the rock to David, …
Psalm 142:1 I cried to the LORD with my voice; with my voice to the LORD did …
Micah 1:3,15 For, behold, the LORD comes forth out of his place, and will come …
Hebrews 11:38 (Of whom the world was not worthy:) they wandered in deserts, and …
Adullam Adullam was a city of Judah; and, according to Eusebius, ten miles (Jerome says eleven) eastward from Eleutheropolis.
And every one that was in distress, and every one that was in debt, and every one that was discontented, gathered themselves unto him; and he became a captain over them: and there were with him about four hundred men.
distress
Judges 11:3 Then Jephthah fled from his brothers, and dwelled in the land of …
Matthew 11:12,28 And from the days of John the Baptist until now the kingdom of heaven …
was in debt [heb] had a creditor
Matthew 18:25-34 But for as much as he had not to pay, his lord commanded him to be …
discontented [heb] bitter of soul
1 Samuel 1:10 And she was in bitterness of soul, and prayed to the LORD, and wept sore.
1 Samuel 30:6 And David was greatly distressed; for the people spoke of stoning …
Judges 18:25 And the children of Dan said to him, Let not your voice be heard …
2 Samuel 17:8 For, said Hushai, you know your father and his men, that they be …
Proverbs 31:6 Give strong drink to him that is ready to perish, and wine to those …
a captain
1 Samuel 9:16 To morrow about this time I will send you a man out of the land of …
1 Samuel 25:15,16 But the men were very good to us, and we were not hurt, neither missed …
1 Samuel 30:22-24 Then answered all the wicked men and men of Belial, of those that …
2 Samuel 5:2 Also in time past, when Saul was king over us, you were he that led …
2 Kings 20:5 Turn again, and tell Hezekiah the captain of my people, Thus said …
1 Chronicles 11:15-19 Now three of the thirty captains went down to the rock to David, …
Psalm 72:12 For he shall deliver the needy when he cries; the poor also, and …
Psalm 72:13,14 He shall spare the poor and needy, and shall save the souls of the needy…
Matthew 9:12,13 But when Jesus heard that, he said to them, They that be whole need …
Hebrews 2:10 For it became him, for whom are all things, and by whom are all things, …
And David went thence to Mizpeh of Moab: and he said unto the king of Moab, Let my father and my mother, I pray thee, come forth, and be with you, till I know what God will do for me.
Mizpeh
Judges 11:29 Then the Spirit of the LORD came on Jephthah, and he passed over …
the king
1 Samuel 14:47 So Saul took the kingdom over Israel, and fought against all his …
Ruth 1:1-4 Now it came to pass in the days when the judges ruled, that there …
Ruth 4:10,17 Moreover Ruth the Moabitess, the wife of Mahlon, have I purchased …
Let my father
Genesis 47:11 And Joseph placed his father and his brothers, and gave them a possession …
Exodus 20:12 Honor your father and your mother: that your days may be long on …
Matthew 15:4-6 For God commanded, saying, Honor your father and mother: and, He …
1 Timothy 5:4 But if any widow have children or nephews, let them learn first to …
till I know
1 Samuel 3:18 And Samuel told him every whit, and hid nothing from him. And he …
2 Samuel 15:25,26 And the king said to Zadok, Carry back the ark of God into the city: …
Philippians 2:23,24 Him therefore I hope to send presently, so soon as I shall see how …
And he brought them before the king of Moab: and they dwelt with him all the while that David was in the hold.
in the hold
2 Samuel 23:13,14 And three of the thirty chief went down, and came to David in the …
1 Chronicles 12:16 And there came of the children of Benjamin and Judah to the hold to David.
Gad
2 Samuel 24:11 For when David was up in the morning, the word of the LORD came to …
1 Chronicles 21:9 And the LORD spoke to Gad, David's seer, saying,
1 Chronicles 29:29 Now the acts of David the king, first and last, behold, they are …
2 Chronicles 29:25 And he set the Levites in the house of the LORD with cymbals, with …
depart
1 Samuel 23:1-6 Then they told David, saying, Behold, the Philistines fight against …
Nehemiah 6:11 And I said, Should such a man as I flee? and who is there, that, …
Psalm 11:1 In the LORD put I my trust: how say you to my soul, Flee as a bird …
Isaiah 8:12-14 Say you not, A confederacy, to all them to whom this people shall …
David departed
Matthew 10:23 But when they persecute you in this city, flee you into another: …
And the prophet Gad said unto David, Abide not in the hold; depart, and get thee into the land of Judah. Then David departed, and came into the forest of Hareth.
When Saul heard that David was discovered, and the men that were with him, (now Saul abode in Gibeah under a tree in Ramah, having his spear in his hand, and all his servants were standing about him;)
Then Saul said unto his servants that stood about him, Hear now, ye Benjamites; will the son of Jesse give every one of you fields and vineyards, and make you all captains of thousands, and captains of hundreds;
the son of Jesse
1 Samuel 22:9,13 Then answered Doeg the Edomite, which was set over the servants of …
1 Samuel 18:14 And David behaved himself wisely in all his ways; and the LORD was with him.
1 Samuel 20:27,30 And it came to pass on the morrow, which was the second day of the …
1 Samuel 25:10 And Nabal answered David's servants, and said, Who is David? and …
2 Samuel 20:1 And there happened to be there a man of Belial, whose name was Sheba, …
1 Kings 12:16 So when all Israel saw that the king listened not to them, the people …
Isaiah 11:1,10 And there shall come forth a rod out of the stem of Jesse, and a …
give
1 Samuel 8:14,15 And he will take your fields, and your vineyards, and your olive …
captains
1 Samuel 8:11,12 And he said, This will be the manner of the king that shall reign …
That all of you have conspired against me, and there is none that sheweth me that my son hath made a league with the son of Jesse, and there is none of you that is sorry for me, or sheweth unto me that my son hath stirred up my servant against me, to lie in wait, as at this day?
sheweth me [heb] uncovereth mine ear.
1 Samuel 20:2 And he said to him, God forbid; you shall not die: behold, my father …
Job 33:16 Then he opens the ears of men, and seals their instruction,
that my son
1 Samuel 18:3 Then Jonathan and David made a covenant, because he loved him as his own soul.
1 Samuel 20:8,13-17,30-34,42 Therefore you shall deal kindly with your servant; for you have brought …
1 Samuel 23:16-18 And Jonathan Saul's son arose, and went to David into the wood, and …
Then answered Doeg the Edomite, which was set over the servants of Saul, and said, I saw the son of Jesse coming to Nob, to Ahimelech the son of Ahitub.
And he inquired of the LORD for him, and gave him victuals, and gave him the sword of Goliath the Philistine.
he enquired
1 Samuel 22:13,15 And Saul said to him, Why have you conspired against me, you and …
1 Samuel 23:2,4,12 Therefore David inquired of the LORD, saying, Shall I go and smite …
1 Samuel 30:8 And David inquired at the LORD, saying, Shall I pursue after this …
Numbers 27:21 And he shall stand before Eleazar the priest, who shall ask counsel …
him victuals
1 Samuel 21:6-9 So the priest gave him hallowed bread: for there was no bread there …
Then the king sent to call Ahimelech the priest, the son of Ahitub, and all his father's house, the priests that were in Nob: and they came all of them to the king.
And Saul said, Hear now, thou son of Ahitub. And he answered, Here I am, my lord.
And Saul said unto him, Why have ye conspired against me, thou and the son of Jesse, in that thou hast given him bread, and a sword, and hast inquired of God for him, that he should rise against me, to lie in wait, as at this day?
Then Ahimelech answered the king, and said, And who is so faithful among all thy servants as David, which is the king's son in law, and goeth at thy bidding, and is honourable in thine house?
And who
1 Samuel 19:4,5 And Jonathan spoke good of David to Saul his father, and said to …
1 Samuel 20:32 And Jonathan answered Saul his father, and said to him, Why shall …
1 Samuel 24:11 Moreover, my father, see, yes, see the skirt of your robe in my hand: …
1 Samuel 26:23 The LORD render to every man his righteousness and his faithfulness; …
2 Samuel 22:23-25 For all his judgments were before me: and as for his statutes, I …
Proverbs 24:11,12 If you forbear to deliver them that are drawn to death, and those …
Proverbs 31:8,9 Open your mouth for the dumb in the cause of all such as are appointed …
the king's
1 Samuel 22:13 And Saul said to him, Why have you conspired against me, you and …
1 Samuel 17:25 And the men of Israel said, Have you seen this man that is come up? …
1 Samuel 18:27 Why David arose and went, he and his men, and slew of the Philistines …
goeth
1 Samuel 18:13 Therefore Saul removed him from him, and made him his captain over …
1 Samuel 21:2 And David said to Ahimelech the priest, The king has commanded me …
Did I then begin to inquire of God for him? be it far from me: let not the king impute any thing unto his servant, nor to all the house of my father: for thy servant knew nothing of all this, less or more.
Did I then He seems to intimate, that his enquiring now for David was no new thing, having often done so before, without ever being informed it was wrong in itself or displeasing to the king.
the servant
Genesis 20:5,6 Said he not to me, She is my sister? and she, even she herself said, …
2 Samuel 15:11 And with Absalom went two hundred men out of Jerusalem, that were …
2 Corinthians 1:12 For our rejoicing is this, the testimony of our conscience, that …
1 Peter 3:16,17 Having a good conscience; that, whereas they speak evil of you, as …
less or more [heb] little or great
1 Samuel 25:36 And Abigail came to Nabal; and, behold, he held a feast in his house, …
And the king said, Thou shalt surely die, Ahimelech, thou, and all thy father's house.
Thou shalt
1 Samuel 14:44 And Saul answered, God do so and more also: for you shall surely die, Jonathan.
1 Samuel 20:31 For as long as the son of Jesse lives on the ground, you shall not …
1 Kings 18:4 For it was so, when Jezebel cut off the prophets of the LORD, that …
1 Kings 19:2 Then Jezebel sent a messenger to Elijah, saying, So let the gods …
Proverbs 28:15 As a roaring lion, and a ranging bear; so is a wicked ruler over …
Daniel 2:5,12 The king answered and said to the Chaldeans, The thing is gone from …
Daniel 3:19,20 Then was Nebuchadnezzar full of fury, and the form of his visage …
Acts 12:19 And when Herod had sought for him, and found him not, he examined …
thou, and
Deuteronomy 24:16 The fathers shall not be put to death for the children, neither shall …
Esther 3:6 And he thought scorn to lay hands on Mordecai alone; for they had …
Matthew 2:16 Then Herod, when he saw that he was mocked of the wise men, was exceeding …
And the king said unto the footmen that stood about him, Turn, and slay the priests of the LORD; because their hand also is with David, and because they knew when he fled, and did not shew it to me. But the servants of the king would not put forth their hand to fall upon the priests of the LORD.
footmen. or, guard [heb] runners
1 Samuel 8:11 And he said, This will be the manner of the king that shall reign …
2 Samuel 15:1 And it came to pass after this, that Absalom prepared him chariots …
1 Kings 1:5 Then Adonijah the son of Haggith exalted himself, saying, I will …
slay the priests
1 Samuel 22:13 And Saul said to him, Why have you conspired against me, you and …
1 Samuel 20:33 And Saul cast a javelin at him to smite him: whereby Jonathan knew …
1 Samuel 25:17 Now therefore know and consider what you will do; for evil is determined …
1 Kings 18:4 For it was so, when Jezebel cut off the prophets of the LORD, that …
would not
1 Samuel 14:45 And the people said to Saul, Shall Jonathan die, who has worked this …
Exodus 1:17 But the midwives feared God, and did not as the king of Egypt commanded …
2 Kings 1:13,14 And he sent again a captain of the third fifty with his fifty. And …
Acts 4:19 But Peter and John answered and said to them, Whether it be right …
And the king said to Doeg, Turn thou, and fall upon the priests. And Doeg the Edomite turned, and he fell upon the priests, and slew on that day fourscore and five persons that did wear a linen ephod.
Doeg
1 Samuel 22:9 Then answered Doeg the Edomite, which was set over the servants of …
he fell
2 Chronicles 24:21 And they conspired against him, and stoned him with stones at the …
Hosea 5:11 Ephraim is oppressed and broken in judgment, because he willingly …
Hosea 7:3 They make the king glad with their wickedness, and the princes with their lies.
Micah 6:16 For the statutes of Omri are kept, and all the works of the house …
Zephaniah 3:3 Her princes within her are roaring lions; her judges are evening …
Acts 26:10,11 Which thing I also did in Jerusalem: and many of the saints did I …
fourscore. The LXX. read, (), `three hundred and eighty-five men.' Probably the eighty five were priests and the three hundred the families of the priests; three hundred and eighty-five being the whole population of Nob.
1 Samuel 2:30-33,36 Why the LORD God of Israel said, I said indeed that your house, and …
1 Samuel 3:12-14 In that day I will perform against Eli all things which I have spoken …
a linen ephod
1 Samuel 2:28 And did I choose him out of all the tribes of Israel to be my priest, …
Exodus 28:40 And for Aaron's sons you shall make coats, and you shall make for …
And Nob, the city of the priests, smote he with the edge of the sword, both men and women, children and sucklings, and oxen, and asses, and sheep, with the edge of the sword.
Nob
1 Samuel 22:9,11 Then answered Doeg the Edomite, which was set over the servants of …
1 Samuel 21:1 Then came David to Nob to Ahimelech the priest: and Ahimelech was …
Nehemiah 11:32 And at Anathoth, Nob, Ananiah,
Isaiah 10:32 As yet shall he remain at Nob that day: he shall shake his hand against …
men
1 Samuel 15:3,9 Now go and smite Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, …
Joshua 6:17,21 And the city shall be accursed, even it, and all that are therein, …
Hosea 10:14 Therefore shall a tumult arise among your people, and all your fortresses …
James 2:13 For he shall have judgment without mercy, that has showed no mercy; …
with the edge This is one of the worst acts of Saul's life: his malice was implacable, and his wrath cruel; and there is no motive of justice or policy by which such a barbarous massacre can be justified.
And one of the sons of Ahimelech the son of Ahitub, named Abiathar, escaped, and fled after David.
one
1 Samuel 23:6 And it came to pass, when Abiathar the son of Ahimelech fled to David …
1 Samuel 30:7 And David said to Abiathar the priest, Ahimelech's son, I pray you, …
2 Samuel 20:25 And Sheva was scribe: and Zadok and Abiathar were the priests:
1 Kings 2:26,27 And to Abiathar the priest said the king, Get you to Anathoth, to …
escaped
1 Samuel 2:33 And the man of yours, whom I shall not cut off from my altar, shall …
1 Samuel 4:12 And there ran a man of Benjamin out of the army, and came to Shiloh …
Job 1:15-17,19 And the Sabeans fell on them, and took them away; yes, they have …
And Abiathar shewed David that Saul had slain the LORD'S priests.
And David said unto Abiathar, I knew it that day, when Doeg the Edomite was there, that he would surely tell Saul: I have occasioned the death of all the persons of thy father's house.
Abide thou with me, fear not: for he that seeketh my life seeketh thy life: but with me thou shalt be in safeguard.
he that seeketh
1 Kings 2:26 And to Abiathar the priest said the king, Get you to Anathoth, to …
Matthew 24:9 Then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted, and shall kill you: …
John 15:20 Remember the word that I said to you, The servant is not greater …
John 16:2,3 They shall put you out of the synagogues: yes, the time comes, that …
Hebrews 12:1-3 Why seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, …
but with me
John 10:28-30 And I give to them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither …
John 17:12 While I was with them in the world, I kept them in your name: those …
John 18:9 That the saying might be fulfilled, which he spoke, Of them which …
