Then Saul arose, and went down into the wilderness of Ziph, and, with him, three thousand chosen men of Israel,—to seek David in the wilderness of Zip.
Yea they who are seeking my life, have laid snares, and they who are asking my harm, have threatened engulfing ruin, And, deceitful things—all day long, do they mutter.
Saul chose him three thousand men out of Israel, of whom there were with Saul, two thousand in Michmash and in the hill-country of Bethel, and, a thousand, were with Jonathan, in Gibeah of Benjamin,—but, the rest of the people, he let go, every man to his own home.
And he came into the sheep-folds by the way, there, being a cave, which Saul entered, to cover his feet,—David and his men, in the hinder part of the cave, having taken up their abode.