³⁵ Jarmuth, and Adullam, Socoh, and Azekah,

¹ David therefore departed there, 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.

¹ Now 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.

³ Therefore Adoni-zedek king of Jerusalem sent to Hoham king of Hebron, and to Piram king of Jarmuth, and to Japhia king of Lachish, and to Debir king of Eglon, saying,

¹⁵ I will yet bring to you, inhabitant of Mareshah, He who is the glory of Israel will come to Adullam.

²⁹ and in En-rimmon, and in Zorah, and in Jarmuth,

¹⁸ His wife the Jewess bore Jered the father of Gedor, and Heber the father of Soco, and Jekuthiel the father of Zanoah. These are the sons of Bithiah the daughter of Pharaoh, whom Mered took.

⁴⁸ In the hill-country, Shamir, and Jattir, and Socoh,

¹⁵ the king of Libnah, one; the king of Adullam, one;

¹¹ the king of Jarmuth, one; the king of Lachish, one;

²³ They did so, and brought forth those five kings to him out of the cave, the king of Jerusalem, the king of Hebron, the king of Jarmuth, the king of Lachish, the king of Eglon.

¹⁰ Yahweh confused them before Israel, and 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.