1 Samuel 24:1-2

David Spares Saul’s Life 1In Hebrew texts 24:1-22 is numbered 24:22-23. After Saul returned from pursuing the Philistines, he was told, “David is in the Desert of En Gedi.”

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