Now [the] Philistines had come, and they spread out in the Valley of Rephaim.

{Once again} [the] Philistines came up and spread out in the Valley of Rephaim.

So David made a name for himself when he returned from defeating Aram in the Valley of Salt, eighteen thousand.

[Even] if he withdraws to a city, all Israel will bring up ropes to that city, and they will drag him away to the valley until there [is] not even a pebble to be found."

(Now Absalom had taken and set up for himself in his lifetime a stone pillar that [is] in the valley of the king, because he said, "I have no son in order to remember my name," and he called the stone pillar by his name. It [is] called the monument of Absalom until this day).

Then three of the thirty leaders went down and came to David {at the time of the harvest} to the cave of Adullam, while a group of [the] Philistines [were] camping in the valley of [the] Rephaim.