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Chapter 24

David Spares Saul.[a] David then went up from there and stayed in the strongholds of Engedi. When Saul returned from the pursuit of the Philistines, he was told that David was in the desert near Engedi. So Saul took three thousand of the best men from all Israel and went in search of David and his men in the direction of the wild goat crags.

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Footnotes

  1. 24:1 The first of two accounts (see chap. 26) in which David spares Saul’s life. The two accounts, which do not make reference to each other, are probably alternative versions of the same story.