And see and know of all the hiding places there where he hides himself. And you shall return to me ready, and I shall go with you, and it shall be, if he is in the land, that I shall search him out through all the thousands of Judah.
And Saul and his men went to search. And they told David. And he went down to the rock, and dwelt in the wilderness of Maon. And Saul heard, and pursued David in the wilderness of Maon.
And a certain man was in Maon, and his work was in Carmel. And the man was very great, and there were three thousand sheep and a thousand goats to him. And he was shearing his flock in Carmel.