1 Samuel 22:1

David Goes to Adullam and Mizpah

22:1 So David left there and escaped to the cave of Adullam. When his brothers and the rest of his father’s family ¹  learned about it, they went down there to him.

1 Samuel 22:4

22:4 So he had them stay with the king of Moab; they stayed with him the whole time ²  that David was in the stronghold.

1 Samuel 24:3

24:3 He came to the sheepfolds by the road, where there was a cave. Saul went into it to relieve himself. ³ 

Now David and his men were sitting in the recesses of the cave.

[22:1]  ¹ tn Heb “house.”

[22:4]  ² tn Heb “all the days.”

[24:3]  ³ tn Heb “to cover his feet,” an idiom (euphemism) for relieving oneself (cf. NAB “to ease nature”).