1 Samuel 26:2

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

So Saul, accompanied by three thousand of the fit young men of Israel,  went immediately to the Wilderness of Ziph to search for David there.

Cross References

1 Samuel 24:2

So Saul took three thousand of Israel’s fit young men  and went to look for David and his men in front of the Rocks of the Wild Goats.

1 Samuel 24:17

and said to David, ‘You are more righteous than I, for you have done what is good to me though I have done what is evil to you.

1 Samuel 13:2

He chose three thousand men from Israel for himself: two thousand were with Saul at Michmash  and in Bethel’s hill country, and one thousand were with Jonathan in Gibeah  of Benjamin. He sent the rest of the troops away, each to his own tent.

1 Samuel 24:3

When Saul came to the sheepfolds along the road, a cave was there, and he went in to relieve himself.  , David and his men were staying in the recesses of the cave,