1 Samuel 22 1 2

All those who were in distress or in debt or discontented gathered around him, and he became their comman.

1 samuel 22 1 2.

But david encouraged himself in the lord his god. Eli was serving as high priest, a very high position with weighty responsibilities. 2 and every one that was in distress, and every one that was in debt, and every one that was discontented, gathered themselves unto him;

So he became captain over them. And when his brothers and all his father’s household heard of it , they went down there to him. And every one that was in debt — אשׁר לו נשׁא asher lo noshee, the man that had a creditor.

David therefore departed from there: And when his brethren and all his father's house heard it, they went down thither to him. And he became a captain over them:

And he became a captain over them. And when his brethren and all his father's house heard it, they went down thither to him. David therefore departed from there and escaped to the cave of adullam.

For the people spake of stoning him, because the soul of all the people was grieved, every man for his sons and for his daughters: He had the high of immediate fame, a recent marriage, dangers from the. Probably poor debtors, whom their creditors were obliged to spare, exodus 22:25.and others, whose lands and goods their creditors might seize when their persons were with david.

The description there is instructive. When his brothers and his father’s household heard about it, they went down to him there. God uses the misfits of the world to accomplish his purposes.