1 Samuel 23:22-24

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition

²² Go and make sure once more; find out exactly where he is, and who has seen him there; for I am told that he is very cunning. ²³ Look around and learn all the hiding-places where he lurks, and come back to me with sure information. Then I will go with you; and if he is in the land, I will search him out among all the thousands of Judah.’ ²⁴ So they set out and went to Ziph ahead of Saul.

David and his men were in the wilderness of Maon, in the Arabah to the south of Jeshimon.