²⁵ Saul and his men went to search for him. When David was told, he went down to the rock and stayed in the wilderness of Maon. When Saul heard that, he pursued David into the wilderness of Maon.

²⁸ So Saul stopped pursuing David and went against the Philistines; therefore that place was called the Rock of Escape.^[a]

⁸ He struck them down hip and thigh with a massive defeat, and he went down and stayed in the cleft of the rock of Etam.