²⁴ So they went to Ziph ahead of Saul.

Now David and his men were in the wilderness near Maon^(A) in the Arabah south of Jeshimon, ²⁵ and Saul and his men went to look for him. When David was told about it, he went down to the rock and stayed in the Wilderness of Maon. Saul heard of this and pursued David there.

¹⁵ The men treated us very well. When we were in the field, we weren’t harassed^(A) and nothing of ours was missing the whole time we were living among them. ¹⁶ They were a wall around us, both day and night,^(B) the entire time we were with them herding the sheep.