if he will sell<n id="1" /> me the cave of Machpelah that belongs to him; it is at the end of his field. Let him sell it to me publicly<n id="2" /> for the full price,<n id="3" /> so that I may own it as a burial site.&#8221;p>

<p class="bodytext">After this Abraham buried his wife Sarah in the cave in the field of Machpelah next to Mamre (that is, Hebron) in the land of Canaan.

His sons Isaac and Ishmael buried him in the cave of Machpelah<n id="1" /> near Mamre, in the field of Ephron the son of Zohar, the Hethite.

<t /><p class="bodytext">So David left there and escaped to the cave of Adullam. When his brothers and the rest of his father&#8217;s family<n id="1" /> learned about it, they went down there to him.

<p class="bodytext">At the time of<n id="1" /> the harvest three<n id="2" /> of the thirty leaders went down to<n id="3" /> David at the cave of Adullam. A band of Philistines was camped in the valley of Rephaim.

<p class="bodytext">Three of the thirty leaders went down to David at the rocky cliff at the cave of Adullam, while a Philistine force was camped in the Valley of Rephaim.