1 Samuel 26:5

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

Immediately, David went to the place where Saul had camped. He saw the place where Saul and Abner son of Ner,  the commander of his army, were lying down. Saul was lying inside the inner circle of the camp with the troops camped around him.

Cross References

1 Samuel 17:55

When Saul had seen David going out to confront the Philistine, he asked Abner the commander of the army, ‘Whose son is this youth, Abner? ’ ‘Your Majesty, as surely as you live, I don’t know,’ Abner replied.

1 Samuel 17:20

So David got up early in the morning, left the flock with someone to keep it, loaded up, and set out as Jesse had charged him. He arrived at the perimeter of the camp  as the army was marching out to its battle formation shouting their battle cry.

1 Chronicles 9:39

Ner fathered Kish, Kish fathered Saul, and Saul fathered Jonathan, Malchishua, Abinadab, and Esh-baal.

2 Samuel 3:27

When Abner returned to Hebron, Joab pulled him aside to the middle of the city gate, as if to speak to him privately, and there Joab stabbed him in the stomach. So Abner died in revenge for the death of Asahel,  Joab’s brother.

1 Samuel 9:1

There was a prominent man of Benjamin named Kish  son of Abiel, son of Zeror, son of Becorath, son of Aphiah, son of a Benjaminite.

1 Samuel 26:4

So David sent out spies and knew for certain that Saul had come.