Biblical places

Adullam

Site of the cave where David hid from Saul, a fortified city in the Judean lowlands (the Shephelah).

Sources and location confidence

OpenBible confidence about 75%; the two sources' coordinates are close.

These are selected indexed references, not an exhaustive list of every mention in the Bible.

Joshua 12:15
The king of Libnah, one; the king of Adullam, one;
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.
Joshua 15:35
Jarmuth, and Adullam, Socoh, and Azekah,

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