Adullam

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• 1CH 11:15–19, engwebp

  ¹⁵Three of the thirty chief men went down to the rock to David, into the cave of Adullam; and the army of the Philistines were encamped in the valley of Rephaim.

  ¹⁶David was then in the stronghold, and the garrison of the Philistines was in Bethlehem at that time.

  ¹⁷David longed, and said, “Oh, that someone would give me water to drink from the well of Bethlehem, which is by the gate!”

  ¹⁸The three broke through the army of the Philistines, and drew water out of the well of Bethlehem that was by the gate, took it, and brought it to David; but David would not drink any of it, but poured it out to the LORD,

  ¹⁹and said, “My God forbid me, that I should do this! Shall I drink the blood of these men who have put their lives in jeopardy?” For they risked their lives to bring it. Therefore he would not drink it. The three mighty men did these things.

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• 1SA 22:1–2, engwebp

  ¹David therefore departed from there and escaped to Adullam’s cave. When his brothers and all his father’s house heard it, they went down there to him.

  ²Everyone who was in distress, everyone who was in debt, and everyone who was discontented gathered themselves to him; and he became captain over them. There were with him about four hundred men.

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• 2CH 11:6–10, engwebp

  ⁶He built Bethlehem, Etam, Tekoa,

  ⁷Beth Zur, Soco, Adullam,

  ⁸Gath, Mareshah, Ziph,

  ⁹Adoraim, Lachish, Azekah,

  ¹⁰Zorah, Aijalon, and Hebron, which are fortified cities in Judah and in Benjamin.

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• 2SA 23:13–17, engwebp

  ¹³Three of the thirty chief men went down, and came to David in the harvest time to the cave of Adullam; and the troop of the Philistines was encamped in the valley of Rephaim.

  ¹⁴David was then in the stronghold; and the garrison of the Philistines was then in Bethlehem.

  ¹⁵David said longingly, “Oh that someone would give me water to drink from the well of Bethlehem, which is by the gate!”

  ¹⁶The three mighty men broke through the army of the Philistines, and drew water out of the well of Bethlehem that was by the gate and took it and brought it to David; but he would not drink of it, but poured it out to the LORD.

  ¹⁷He said, “Be it far from me, LORD, that I should do this! Isn’t this the blood of the men who risked their lives to go?” Therefore he would not drink it. The three mighty men did these things.

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• GEN 38:1–23, engwebp

  ¹At that time, Judah went down from his brothers, and visited a certain Adullamite, whose name was Hirah.

  ²There, Judah saw the daughter of a certain Canaanite man named Shua. He took her, and went in to her.

  ³She conceived, and bore a son; and he named him Er.

  ⁴She conceived again, and bore a son; and she named him Onan.

  ⁵She yet again bore a son, and named him Shelah. He was at Chezib when she bore him.

  ⁶Judah took a wife for Er, his firstborn, and her name was Tamar.

  ⁷Er, Judah’s firstborn, was wicked in the LORD’s sight. So the LORD killed him.

  ⁸Judah said to Onan, “Go in to your brother’s wife, and perform the duty of a husband’s brother to her, and raise up offspring for your brother.”

  ⁹Onan knew that the offspring wouldn’t be his; and when he went in to his brother’s wife, he spilled his semen on the ground, lest he should give offspring to his brother.

  ¹⁰The thing which he did was evil in the LORD’s sight, and he killed him also.

  ¹¹Then Judah said to Tamar, his daughter-in-law, “Remain a widow in your father’s house, until Shelah, my son, is grown up;” for he said, “Lest he also die, like his brothers.” Tamar went and lived in her father’s house.

  ¹²After many days, Shua’s daughter, the wife of Judah, died. Judah was comforted, and went up to his sheep shearers to Timnah, he and his friend Hirah, the Adullamite.

  ¹³Tamar was told, “Behold, your father-in-law is going up to Timnah to shear his sheep.”

  ¹⁴She took off the garments of her widowhood, and covered herself with her veil, and wrapped herself, and sat in the gate of Enaim, which is on the way to Timnah; for she saw that Shelah was grown up, and she wasn’t given to him as a wife.

  ¹⁵When Judah saw her, he thought that she was a prostitute, for she had covered her face.

  ¹⁶He turned to her by the way, and said, “Please come, let me come in to you,” for he didn’t know that she was his daughter-in-law. She said, “What will you give me, that you may come in to me?”

  ¹⁷He said, “I will send you a young goat from the flock.” She said, “Will you give me a pledge, until you send it?”

  ¹⁸He said, “What pledge will I give you?” She said, “Your signet and your cord, and your staff that is in your hand.” He gave them to her, and came in to her, and she conceived by him.

  ¹⁹She arose, and went away, and put off her veil from her, and put on the garments of her widowhood.

  ²⁰Judah sent the young goat by the hand of his friend, the Adullamite, to receive the pledge from the woman’s hand, but he didn’t find her.

  ²¹Then he asked the men of her place, saying, “Where is the prostitute, that was at Enaim by the road?” They said, “There has been no prostitute here.”

  ²²He returned to Judah, and said, “I haven’t found her; and also the men of the place said, ‘There has been no prostitute here.’”

  ²³Judah said, “Let her keep it, lest we be shamed. Behold, I sent this young goat, and you haven’t found her.”

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• JOS 12:7–24, engwebp

  ⁷These are the kings of the land whom Joshua and the children of Israel struck beyond the Jordan westward, from Baal Gad in the valley of Lebanon even to Mount Halak, that goes up to Seir. Joshua gave it to the tribes of Israel for a possession according to their divisions;

  ⁸in the hill country, and in the lowland, and in the Arabah, and in the slopes, and in the wilderness, and in the South; the Hittite, the Amorite, and the Canaanite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite:

  ⁹the king of Jericho, one; the king of Ai, which is beside Bethel, one;

  ¹⁰the king of Jerusalem, one; the king of Hebron, one;

  ¹¹the king of Jarmuth, one; the king of Lachish, one;

  ¹²the king of Eglon, one; the king of Gezer, one;

  ¹³the king of Debir, one; the king of Geder, one;

  ¹⁴the king of Hormah, one; the king of Arad, one;

  ¹⁵the king of Libnah, one; the king of Adullam, one;

  ¹⁶the king of Makkedah, one; the king of Bethel, one;

  ¹⁷the king of Tappuah, one; the king of Hepher, one;

  ¹⁸the king of Aphek, one; the king of Lassharon, one;

  ¹⁹the king of Madon, one; the king of Hazor, one;

  ²⁰the king of Shimron Meron, one; the king of Achshaph, one;

  ²¹the king of Taanach, one; the king of Megiddo, one;

  ²²the king of Kedesh, one; the king of Jokneam in Carmel, one;

  ²³the king of Dor in the height of Dor, one; the king of Goiim in Gilgal, one;

  ²⁴the king of Tirzah, one: all the kings thirty-one.

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• JOS 15:33–36, engwebp

  ³³In the lowland, Eshtaol, Zorah, Ashnah,

  ³⁴Zanoah, En Gannim, Tappuah, Enam,

  ³⁵Jarmuth, Adullam, Socoh, Azekah,

  ³⁶Shaaraim, Adithaim and Gederah (or Gederothaim); fourteen cities with their villages.

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• MIC 1:8–16, engwebp

  ⁸For this I will lament and wail. I will go stripped and naked. I will howl like the jackals and mourn like the ostriches.

  ⁹For her wounds are incurable; for it has come even to Judah. It reaches to the gate of my people, even to Jerusalem.

  ¹⁰Don’t tell it in Gath. Don’t weep at all. At Beth Ophrah I have rolled myself in the dust.

  ¹¹Pass on, inhabitant of Shaphir, in nakedness and shame. The inhabitant of Zaanan won’t come out. The wailing of Beth Ezel will take from you his protection.

  ¹²For the inhabitant of Maroth waits anxiously for good, because evil has come down from the LORD to the gate of Jerusalem.

  ¹³Harness the chariot to the swift steed, inhabitant of Lachish. She was the beginning of sin to the daughter of Zion; for the transgressions of Israel were found in you.

  ¹⁴Therefore you will give a parting gift to Moresheth Gath. The houses of Achzib will be a deceitful thing to the kings of Israel.

  ¹⁵I will yet bring a conqueror to you, inhabitants of Mareshah. The glory of Israel will come to Adullam.

  ¹⁶Shave your heads, and cut off your hair for the children of your delight. Enlarge your baldness like the vulture, for they have gone into captivity from you!

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• NEH 11:25–30, engwebp

  ²⁵As for the villages with their fields, some of the children of Judah lived in Kiriath Arba and its towns, in Dibon and its towns, in Jekabzeel and its villages,

  ²⁶in Jeshua, in Moladah, Beth Pelet,

  ²⁷in Hazar Shual, in Beersheba and its towns,

  ²⁸in Ziklag, in Meconah and in its towns,

  ²⁹in En Rimmon, in Zorah, in Jarmuth,

  ³⁰Zanoah, Adullam, and their villages, Lachish and its fields, and Azekah and its towns. So they encamped from Beersheba to the valley of Hinnom.

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