¹⁵ So Joshua answered them, “If you are a great people, then go up to the forest country and clear a place for yourself there in the land of the Perizzites and the giants, since the mountains of Ephraim are too confined for you.”

¹⁶ Then the border came down to the end of the mountain that lies before ^(A)the Valley of the Son of Hinnom, which is in the Valley of the ^[a]Rephaim on the north, descended to the Valley of Hinnom, to the side of the Jebusite city on the south, and descended to ^(B)En Rogel.

¹⁵ Now three of the thirty chief men ^(A)went down to the rock to David, into the cave of Adullam; and the army of the Philistines encamped ^(B)in the Valley of ^[a]Rephaim.

^13 (A)Then the Philistines once again made a raid on the valley.