⁴ So he passed through the hill^(A) country of Ephraim and through the area around Shalisha,^(B) but they did not find them. They went on into the district of Shaalim, but the donkeys^(C) were not there. Then he passed through the territory of Benjamin, but they did not find them.

⁵ When they reached the district of Zuph,^(A) Saul said to the servant who was with him, “Come, let’s go back, or my father will stop thinking about the donkeys and start worrying^(B) about us.”

²⁷ They repeated to him what they had been saying and told him, “This is what will be done for the man who kills him.”