10:14 Saul’s uncle asked him and his servant, “Where did you go?” Saul 1 replied, “To look for the donkeys. But when we realized they were lost, 2 we went to Samuel.”
went down to the desert of Ziph, accompanied by three thousand select men of Israel, to look for David in the desert of Ziph.
1 tn Heb “he”; the referent (Saul) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
2 tn Heb “And we saw that they were not.”
3 tn Heb “to search.”
5 tn Heb “to search [for].”
6 tn Heb “upon the face of.”
7 tn Or “the region of the Rocks of the Mountain Goats,” if this expression is understood as a place name (cf. NASB, NIV, NRSV, TEV, CEV).