1 Samuel 26:2 - New International Version (Anglicised)

² So Saul went down to the Desert of Ziph, with his three thousand select Israelite troops, to search there for David.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

² Then Saul arose, and went down to the wilderness of Ziph, having three thousand chosen men of Israel with him, to seek David in the wilderness of Ziph.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

² So Saul arose and went down to the Wilderness of Ziph, with 3,000 chosen men of Israel, to seek David [there].

American Standard Version (1901)

² Then Saul arose, and went down to the wilderness of Ziph, having three thousand chosen men of Israel with him, to seek David in the wilderness of Ziph.

Common English Bible

² So Saul got up and went down to the Ziph wilderness to look for David there. He had three thousand handpicked soldiers from Israel with him.

Catholic Public Domain Version

² And Saul rose up, and he descended into the desert of Ziph, and with him three thousand elect men of Israel, so that he might seek David in the desert of Ziph.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

² And Saul arose, and went down to the wilderness of Ziph, having with him three thousand chosen men of Israel, to seek David in the wilderness of Ziph.

1 Samuel 26:2 Tagairtí Cros

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 Michmash 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 sheepfolds along the way; a cave was there, and Saul went in to relieve himself. David and his men were far back in the cave.