World English Bible
1 Samuel 22:2
“Everyone who was in distress, and everyone who was in debt, and everyone who was discontented, gathered themselves to him; and he became captain over them: and there were with him about four hundred men.”
Verse in context — 1 Samuel 22
1
David therefore departed there, and escaped to the cave of Adullam. When his brothers and all his father's house heard it, they went down there to him.
2
Everyone who was in distress, and everyone who was in debt, and everyone who was discontented, gathered themselves to him; and he became captain over them: and there were with him about four hundred men.
3
David went there to Mizpeh of Moab, and he said to the king of Moab, "Please let my father and my mother come out with you, until I know what God will do for me.
4
He brought them before the king of Moab; and they lived with him all the while that David was in the stronghold.
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The rise of Israel’s monarchy with Samuel, Saul, and David.
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