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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - 1 Samuel 22:1 - 22:1
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1Sa 22:1-8. David’s kindred and others resort to him at Adullam.
David ... escaped to the cave Adullam - supposed to be that now called Deir-Dubban, a number of pits or underground vaults, some nearly square, and all about fifteen or twenty feet deep, with perpendicular sides, in the soft limestone or chalky rocks. They are on the borders of the Philistine plain at the base of the Judea mountains, six miles southwest from Beth-lehem, and well adapted for concealing a number of refugees.
his brethren and all his father’s house ... went down - to escape the effects of Saul’s rage, which seems to have extended to all David’s family. From Beth-lehem to Deir-Dubban it is, indeed, a descent all the way.