1. David left Gath and escaped to Adullam’s fortress. When David’s siblings and all his extended family learned of this, they went to join him there.
2. Everyone who was in trouble, in debt, or in desperate circumstances gathered around David, and he became their leader. Approximately four hundred men joined him.
3. From there David went to Mizpeh in Moab. He said to the Moabite king, "Please let my father and mother stay with you until I know what God will do to me."
4. So David left his parents with the Moabite king, and they stayed with him the whole time David was in the fortress.
5. Then the prophet Gad told David, "Don’t stay in the fortress any longer. Leave now and go to the land of Judah." So David left and went to Hereth forest.
6. Saul learned that David and his soldiers had been located. Saul was sitting under the tamarisk tree on the hill at Gibeah, spear in hand, with all his servants waiting on him.
7. He said to them, "Listen up, Benjaminites! Will Jesse’s son give fields and vineyards to each and every one of you? Will he make each one of you commanders of units of one thousand men or commanders of units of one hundred?
8. Is that why all of you have conspired against me? No one informed me when my son made a covenant with Jesse’s son! Not one of you is concerned about me or informs me when my own son sets my servant against me in an ambush—but that’s what has happened today!"
9. Doeg the Edomite, who was standing with Saul’s servants, responded, "I saw Jesse’s son go to Ahimelech, Ahitub’s son, at Nob.
10. Ahimelech questioned the Lord for David, and gave him provisions as well as the sword of Goliath the Philistine."