So David departed from there and escaped to the cave of Adullam; and his brothers and all his father’s household heard of it and went down there to him.
Then three of the thirty chief men went down to the rock to David, to the cave of Adullam, while the camp of the Philistines was camping in the valley of Rephaim.
Then the men of David said to him, “Behold, this is the day of which Yahweh said to you, ‘Behold, I am about to give your enemy into your hand, and you shall do to him as it seems good in your eyes.’ ” Then David arose and cut off the edge of Saul’s robe secretly.