1. SO DAVID departed and escaped to the cave of Adullam: and when his brothers and all his father's house heard it, they went down there to him.
2. And everyone in distress or in debt or discontented gathered to him, and he became a commander over them. And there were with him about 400 men.
3. And David went from there to Mizpah of Moab; and he said to the king of Moab, Let my father [of Moabite descent] and my mother, I pray you, come out [of Judah] and be with you till I know what God will do for me. [Ruth 4:13, 17.]
4. And he brought them before the king of Moab, and they dwelt with him all the while that David was in the stronghold [in Moab].