1 Samuel 26:3

26:3 Saul camped by the road on the hill of Hakilah near Jeshimon, but David was staying in the desert. When he realized that Saul had come to the desert to find ¹  him,

1 Samuel 26:20

26:20 Now don’t let my blood fall to the ground away from the Lord’s presence, for the king of Israel has gone out to look for a flea the way one looks for a partridge ²  in the hill country.”

1 Samuel 30:16

30:16 So he took David ³  down, and they found them spread out over the land. They were eating and drinking and enjoying themselves because of all the loot ⁴  they had taken from the land of the Philistines and from the land of Judah.

¹ tn Heb “after.”

² tn Heb “the calling [one],” which apparently refers to a partridge.

³ tn Heb “him”; the referent (David) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

⁴ tn Heb “because of all the large plunder.”