1 Samuel 26:2

Good News Translation

Saul went at once with three thousand of the best soldiers in Israel to the wilderness of Ziph to look for David,

Cross References

Psalm 38:12

Those who want to kill me lay traps for me, and those who want to hurt me threaten to ruin me; they never stop plotting against me.

1 Samuel 13:2

Saul picked three thousand men, keeping two thousand of them with him in Michmash and in the hill country of Bethel and sending one thousand with his son Jonathan to Gibeah, in the territory of the tribe of Benjamin. The rest of the men Saul sent home.

1 Samuel 24:17

Then he said to David, “You are right, and I am wrong. You have been so good to me, while I have done such wrong to you!

1 Samuel 24:2

Saul took three thousand of the best soldiers in Israel and went looking for David and his men east of Wild Goat Rocks.

1 Samuel 24:3

He came to a cave close to some sheep pens by the road and went in to relieve himself. It happened to be the very cave in which David and his men were hiding far back in the cave.