So now, assemble the rest of the men, and camp against the city and capture it, or I will take the city myself, and it will be named after me.”

Then three of the thirty chief men went down and came to David at harvest time in the cave of Adullam, while an army of Philistines was encamped in the Valley of Rephaim.

They crossed over the Jordan and camped in Aroer, on the south side of the city which is in the middle of the river valley [of the Arnon] toward Gad, and on toward Jazer.

So Israel and Absalom camped in the land of Gilead.