1 Samuel 26:2

New Century Version

So Saul went down to the Desert of Ziph with three thousand chosen men of Israel to look for David there.

Cross References

Psalm 38:12

Some people set traps to kill me. Those who want to hurt me plan trouble; all day long they think up lies.

1 Samuel 13:2

Saul chose three thousand men from Israel. Two thousand men stayed with him at Micmash in the mountains of Bethel, and one thousand men stayed with Jonathan at Gibeah in Benjamin. Saul sent the other men in the army back home.

1 Samuel 24:17

He said, “You are a better man than I am. You have been good to me, but I have done wrong to you.

1 Samuel 24:2

So he took three thousand chosen men from all Israel and began looking for David and his men near the Rocks of the Wild Goats.

1 Samuel 24:3

Saul came to the sheep pens beside the road. A cave was there, and he went in to relieve himself. Now David and his men were hiding far back in the cave.