¹¹ So David and his men headed back into the land of the Philistines, while the Philistine army went on to Jezreel.

⁴ (Saul’s son Jonathan had a son named Mephibosheth,^[a] who was crippled as a child. He was five years old when the report came from Jezreel that Saul and Jonathan had been killed in battle. When the child’s nurse heard the news, she picked him up and fled. But as she hurried away, she dropped him, and he became crippled.)

The Philistines Reject David

29 The entire Philistine army now mobilized at Aphek, and the Israelites camped at the spring in Jezreel.