22 However, every bad and good-for-nothing man+ out of the men that had gone with David answered and kept saying: “For the reason that they did not go with us,* we will give them none of the spoil that we delivered, except to each one his wife and his sons, and let them lead them and go.”

2 Both yesterday and previously+ while Saul happened to be king over us, you yourself became the one leading Israel out and bringing it in.+ And Jehovah proceeded to say to you, ‘You yourself will shepherd+ my people Israel, and you yourself will become leader+ over Israel.’”

15 And three of the thirty+ head ones proceeded to go down to the rock, to David at the cave of A·dulʹlam,+ while a camp of the Phi·lisʹtines was camping in the low plain of Rephʹa·im.+