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David Spares Saul in the Cave at En Gedi

24 When Saul returned from pursuing the Philistines, they told him, “Look, David is in the wilderness of En Gedi.” So Saul took three thousand chosen men from all Israel, and he and his men went to search for David in the direction of[a] the Rocks of the Mountain Goats.[b] He came to the sheep pens beside the road, and a cave was there. Then Saul went in to relieve himself.[c] Now David and his men were sitting in the innermost part of the cave.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Samuel 24:2 Literally “on the face of”
  2. 1 Samuel 24:2 Hebrew “of the Jael”
  3. 1 Samuel 24:3 Literally “to cover his feet”