1 Samuel 26:2

New International Version

So Saul went down to the Desert of Ziph, with his three thousand select Israelite troops, to search there for David.

Cross References

Psalm 38:12

Those who want to kill me set their traps, those who would harm me talk of my ruin; all day long they scheme and lie.

1 Samuel 13:2

Saul chose three thousand men from Israel; two thousand were with him at Mikmash and in the hill country of Bethel, and a thousand were with Jonathan at Gibeah in Benjamin. The rest of the men he sent back to their homes.

1 Samuel 24:17

“You are more righteous than I,” he said. “You have treated me well, but I have treated you badly.

1 Samuel 24:2

So Saul took three thousand able young men from all Israel and set out to look for David and his men near the Crags of the Wild Goats.

1 Samuel 24:3

He came to the sheep pens along the way; a cave was there, and Saul went in to relieve himself. David and his men were far back in the cave.