Places of the Bible
Adullam
City
Where the name appears
Events told in passages that name Adullam, and how many of their verses do. That is not the same as saying they happened here: a place can be named as a landmark, as somewhere being travelled to, or as the subject of a prophecy.
A dot is a moment; a bar is something that lasted, drawn to its length. The fainter the mark, the fewer verses name the place.
- War with Canaanites · 1450 BC · 1 verse
- Reign of Saul · 1094 BC · 1 verse
- Reign of David · 1054 BC · 1 verse
- Prophecies of Micah · 753 BC · 1 verse
Easton’s Bible Dictionary
One of the royal cities of the Canaanites, now ‘Aid-el-ma (Josh. 12:15; 15:35). It stood on the old Roman road in the valley of Elah (q.v.), which was the scene of David’s memorable victory over Goliath (1 Sam. 17:2), and not far from Gath. It was one of the towns which Rehoboam fortified against Egypt (2 Chr. 11:7). It was called “the glory of Israel” (Micah 1:15).
The Cave of Adullam has been discovered about 2 miles south of the scene of David’s triumph, and about 13 miles west from Bethlehem. At this place is a hill some 500 feet high pierced with numerous caverns, in one of which David gathered together “every one that was in distress, and every one that was in debt, and every one that was discontented” (1 Sam. 22:2). Some of these caverns are large enough to hold 200 or 300 men. According to tradition this cave was at Wady Khureitun, between Bethlehem and the Dead Sea, but this view cannot be well maintained.
From M. G. Easton, Illustrated Bible Dictionary (1893), in the public domain.
Named in 8 verses
- Joshua
- 12:15, 15:35
- 1 Samuel
- 22:1
- 2 Samuel
- 23:13
- 1 Chronicles
- 11:15
- 2 Chronicles
- 11:7
- Nehemiah
- 11:30
- Micah
- 1:15
The place, its people and its events come from Theographic, a knowledge graph of the Bible by Robert Rouse, used and shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.