See therefore, and take knowledge of all the lurking places where he hides himself, and come you again to me of a certainty, and I will go with you: and it shall happen, if he be in the land, that I will search him out among all the thousands of Yehudah.
Sha'ul and his men went to seek him. When David was told, he went down to the rock, and stayed in the wilderness of Ma`on. When Sha'ul heard [that], he pursued after David in the wilderness of Ma`on.
There was a man in Ma`on, whose possessions were in Karmel; and the man was very great, and he had three thousand sheep, and a thousand goats: and he was shearing his sheep in Karmel.