21. Saul replied, “May you be blessed by the Lord, for you have had compassion on me.
22. Go and make further arrangements. Determine precisely where he is and who has seen him there, for I am told that he is extremely cunning.
23. Locate precisely all the places where he hides and return to me with dependable information. Then I will go with you. If he is in the land, I will find him among all the thousands of Judah.”
24. So they left and went to Ziph ahead of Saul. Now David and his men were in the desert of Maon, in the Arabah to the south of Jeshimon.