Jarmuth, Adullam, Socoh, and Azekah,
Parallel translations
- WEB Jarmuth, Adullam, Socoh, Azekah,
- KJV Jarmuth, and Adullam, Socoh, and Azekah,
- BSB Jarmuth, Adullam, Socoh, Azekah,
- NKJV Jarmuth, Adullam, Socoh, Azekah,
- NLT Jarmuth, Adullam, Socoh, Azekah,
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Quick answer
Jarmuth, Adullam, Socoh, and Azekah are named in the lowland. Notable battle sites appear here.
Overview
Adullam's cave would shelter David and his men (1 Samuel 22:1), and Socoh and Azekah bordered the valley where David faced Goliath (1 Samuel 17:1). Jarmuth's king had been among the southern coalition Joshua defeated (Joshua 10). These towns figure prominently in Judah's later history of deliverance.
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- 1 Sam 17:1Now the Philistines gathered together their armies to battle; and they were gathered together at Socoh, which belongs to Judah, and encamped between Socoh and Azekah, in Ephesdammim.
- 1 Sam 22:1David therefore departed from 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.
- Josh 10:3Therefore Adoni-Zedek king of Jerusalem sent to Hoham king of Hebron, Piram king of Jarmuth, Japhia king of Lachish, and Debir king of Eglon, saying,
- Neh 11:29in En Rimmon, in Zorah, in Jarmuth,
- Josh 12:11the king of Jarmuth, one; the king of Lachish, one;
- Josh 12:15the king of Libnah, one; the king of Adullam, one;
- Josh 10:10Yahweh confused them before Israel. He killed them with a great slaughter at Gibeon, and chased them by the way of the ascent of Beth Horon, and struck them to Azekah and to Makkedah.
- Mic 1:15I will yet bring to you, inhabitant of Mareshah. He who is the glory of Israel will come to Adullam.
- Josh 10:23They did so, and brought those five kings out of the cave to him: the king of Jerusalem, the king of Hebron, the king of Jarmuth, the king of Lachish, and the king of Eglon.
- 1 Chr 4:18His wife the Jewess bore Jered the father of Gedor, Heber the father of Soco, and Jekuthiel the father of Zanoah. These are the sons of Bithiah the daughter of Pharaoh, whom Mered took.
- Josh 15:48In the hill country, Shamir, Jattir, Socoh,
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