1 Samuel 23:29--24:1

23:29 (24:1) ¹  Then David went up from there and stayed in the strongholds of En Gedi.

David Spares Saul’s Life

24:1 (24:2) When Saul returned from pursuing the Philistines, they told him, “Look, David is in the desert of En Gedi.”

1 Samuel 28:7

28:7 So Saul instructed his servants, “Find me a woman who is a medium, ²  so that I may go to her and inquire of her.” His servants replied to him, “There is a woman who is a medium in Endor.”

¹ sn Beginning with 23:29, the verse numbers through 24:22 in the English Bible differ from the verse numbers in the Hebrew text (BHS), with 23:29 ET = 24:1 HT, 24:1 ET = 24:2 HT, 24:2 ET = 24:3 HT, etc., through 24:22 ET = 24:23 HT. With 25:1 the verse numbers in the ET and HT are again the same.

² tn Heb “an owner of a ritual pit.” See the note at v. 3.