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<p class="tab-1">David, being driven from Achish, returns into the land of Israel to be hunted by Saul. I. David sets up his standard in the cave of Adullam, entertains his relations (<a class="bibleref" title="1Sam.22.1" href="/passage/?search=1Sam.22.1">1 Sam. 22:1</a>), enlists soldiers (<a class="bibleref" title="1Sam.22.2" href="/passage/?search=1Sam.22.2">1 Sam. 22:2</a>), but removes his aged parents to a more quiet settlement (<a class="bibleref" title="1Sam.22.3,1Sam.22.4" href="/passage/?search=1Sam.22.3,1Sam.22.4"><span class="bibleref" title="1Sam.22.3">1 Sam. 22:3</span>, <span class="bibleref" title="1Sam.22.4">4</span></a>), and has the prophet Gad for his counsellor, <a class="bibleref" title="1Sam.22.5" href="/passage/?search=1Sam.22.5">1 Sam. 22:5</a>. Saul resolves to pursue him and find him out, complains of his servants and Jonathan (<a class="bibleref" title="1Sam.22.6-1Sam.22.8" href="/passage/?search=1Sam.22.6-1Sam.22.8">1 Sam. 22:6-8</a>), and, finding by Doeg’s information that Ahimelech had been kind to David, he ordered him and all the priests that were with him, eighty-five in all, to be put to death, and all that belonged to them destroyed (<a class="bibleref" title="1Sam.22.9-1Sam.22.19" href="/passage/?search=1Sam.22.9-1Sam.22.19">1 Sam. 22:9-19</a>) from the barbarous execution of which sentence Abiathar escaped to David, <a class="bibleref" title="1Sam.22.20-1Sam.22.23" href="/passage/?search=1Sam.22.20-1Sam.22.23">1 Sam. 22:20-23</a>.</p>
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