Now the Philistines had come and spread out [for battle] in the Valley of Rephaim.

The Philistines came up once again and spread out in the Valley of Rephaim.

So David made a name for himself when he returned from killing 18,000 Arameans (Syrians) in the Valley of Salt.

Now Absalom in his lifetime had taken and set up for himself a memorial pillar which is in the King’s Valley, for he said, “I have no son to keep my name in remembrance.” He named the memorial pillar after himself, and to this day it is called Absalom’s Monument.

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.