Adullam
Adullam, a city in Judah, known for its cave where David hid.
The name Adullam means “their testimony; their prey; their ornament”
PlaceOld Testament8 books11 verses
Summary
A location first mentioned at Joshua 12:15; referred to as Adullam (עֲדֻלָּם) or Adullamite (עֲדֻלָּמִי).
Location
- Identified as
- Khirbet esh Sheikh Madhkur
- Certainty
- Likely (74% of scholarship) · 1 other possible location
- Coordinates
- 31.652° N, 35.002° E
Glossary entries
Alternative names
- עֲדֻלָּםAdullam
- עֲדֻלָּמִיAdullam
Mentions
- About that time, Judah left his brothers and settled near a man named Hirah, an Adullamite.
- After a long time Judah’s wife, the daughter of Shua, died. When Judah had finished mourning, he and his friend Hirah the Adullamite went up to his sheepshearers at Timnah.
- Now when Judah sent his friend Hirah the Adullamite with the young goat to collect the items he had left with the woman, he could not find her.
- …the king of Libnah, one; the king of Adullam, one;
- Jarmuth, Adullam, Socoh, Azekah,
- So David left Gath and took refuge in the cave of Adullam. When his brothers and the rest of his father’s household heard about it, they went down to him there.
- At harvest time, three of the thirty chief men went down to David at the cave of Adullam, while a company of Philistines was encamped in the Valley of Rephaim.
- Three of the thirty chief men went down to David, to the rock at the cave of Adullam, while a company of Philistines was encamped in the Valley of Rephaim.
- Beth-zur, Soco, Adullam,
- Zanoah, Adullam, and their villages; in Lachish and its fields; and in Azekah and its villages. So they settled from Beersheba all the way to the Valley of Hinnom.
- I will again bring a conqueror against you, O dweller of Mareshah. The glory of Israel will come to Adullam.