1 Samuel 23:26

23:26 Saul went on one side of the mountain, while David and his men went on the other side of the mountain. David was hurrying to get away from Saul, but Saul and his men were surrounding David and his men so they could capture them.

1 Samuel 23:24-25

23:24 So they left and went to Ziph ahead of Saul. Now David and his men were in the desert of Maon, in the Arabah to the south of Jeshimon. 23:25 Saul and his men went to look for him. ¹  But David was informed and went down to the rock and stayed in the desert of Maon. When Saul heard about it, he pursued David in the desert of Maon.

1 Samuel 24:2

24:2 So Saul took three thousand select men from all Israel and went to find ²  David and his men in the region of ³  the rocks of the mountain goats. ⁴ 

1 Samuel 24:22

24:22 David promised Saul this on oath. ⁵  Then Saul went to his house, and David and his men went up to the stronghold.

1 Samuel 25:20

25:20 Riding on her donkey, she went down under cover of the mountain. David and his men were coming down to meet her, and she encountered them.

1 Samuel 27:3

27:3 David settled with Achish in Gath, along with his men and their families. ⁶  David had with him his two wives, Ahinoam the Jezreelite and Abigail the Carmelite, Nabal’s widow.

1 Samuel 29:11

29:11 So David and his men got up early in the morning to return ⁷  to the land of the Philistines, but the Philistines went up to Jezreel.

[23:25]  ¹ tn Heb “to search.”

[24:2]  ¹ tn Heb “to search [for].”

[24:2]  ² tn Heb “upon the face of.”

[24:2]  ³ 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).

[24:22]  ¹ tn Heb “and David swore an oath to Saul.”

[27:3]  ¹ tn Heb “a man and his house.”

[29:11]  ¹ tc Heb “to go in the morning to return.” With the exception of Origen and the Lucianic recension, the Old Greek tradition lacks the phrase “in the morning.” The Syriac Peshitta also omits it.