¹⁵ While David was at Horesh in the Desert of Ziph, he learned that^[a] Saul had come out to take his life.^(A)

² So Saul took three thousand able young men from all Israel and set out to look^(A) for David and his men near the Crags of the Wild Goats.

³ He came to the sheep pens along the way; a cave^(A) was there, and Saul went in to relieve^(B) himself. David and his men were far back in the cave.