"Cave of Adullam" meaning in All languages combined

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          "ref": "1890, George William Knox, “The Lull in Japan”, in The Church at Home and Abroad, volume 8, page 219",
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          "text": "[…] Grub Street was a Cave of Adullam for broken men, ruined in trade or political troubles, who could just keep body and soul together by these productions.",
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          "ref": "2005, Thomas Pinney, A History of Wine in America, volume 2, page 205",
          "text": "The marathon open hearing held in Fresno in May 1961 to debate the measure turned out to be a Cave of Adullam where everyone with a complaint or a grievance, exacerbated through the long years of market instability, craved to be heard.",
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