Adullam
Town · today Khirbet esh Sheikh Madhkur
Location likely About 26 km (16 miles, 140 furlongs) southwest of Jerusalem
Adullam in the Bible Dictionary · David Flees from Saul
Named in 9 Verses
- Genesis 38:1 And it came to pass at that time, that Judah went down from his brethren, and turned in to a certain Adullamite, whose name was Hirah.
- Joshua 12:15 The king of Libnah, one; the king of Adullam, one;
- Joshua 15:35 Jarmuth, and Adullam, Socoh, and Azekah,
- 1 Samuel 22:1 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.
- 2 Samuel 23:13 And three of the thirty chief went down, and came to David in the harvest time unto the cave of Adullam: and the troop of the Philistines pitched in the valley of Rephaim.
- 1 Chronicles 11:15 Now three of the thirty captains went down to the rock to David, into the cave of Adullam; and the host of the Philistines encamped in the valley of Rephaim.
- 2 Chronicles 11:7 And Bethzur, and Shoco, and Adullam,
- Nehemiah 11:30 Zanoah, Adullam, and in their villages, at Lachish, and the fields thereof, at Azekah, and in the villages thereof. And they dwelt from Beersheba unto the valley of Hinnom.
- Micah 1:15 Yet will I bring an heir unto thee, O inhabitant of Mareshah: he shall come unto Adullam the glory of Israel.
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