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ADULLAM

This article appears in Volume V01, Page 218 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: ADA-AIZ
ADULLAM , a Canaanitish town in the territory of the tribe of Judah, perhaps the modern `Aid-el-Ma, 7 M. N.E. of
Beit
 -Jibrin. It was in the stronghold (" cave " is a scribal error) of this town that
David
  took
refuge
  on two occasions (I Sam. xxii. 1; 2 Sam. V. 17). The tradition that Adullam is in the
great
  cave of. Khareitun (St Chariton) is probably due to the crusaders. From the description of Adullam as the resort of " every one that was in distress," or " in debt," or " discontented," it has often been humorously alluded to, notably by Sir Walter Scott,, who puts the expression into the mouth of the Baron of Bradwardine in Waverley, chap. lvii., and also of Balfour of Burley in Old Mortality. In modern political history the expression " cave of Adullam " (hence " Adullamites ") came into common use (being first employed in a speech by John
Bright
  on the 13th of
March
  1866) with regard to the independent attitude of Robert Lowe (Lord Sherbrooke),
Edward
  Horsman and their Liberal supporters in opposition to the Reform Bill of 1866. But others had previously used it in a similar connexion, e.g. President Lincoln in his second electoral campaign (1864), and the Tories in allusion to the Whig remnant who joined C. J. Fox in his temporary secession. From the same usage is derived the shorter political
term
  " cave " for any
body
  of men who secede from their party on some
special
  subject.


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