²⁴ When he had gone, the servants came, and when they saw that the doors of the roof chamber were locked, they thought, ^(A)“Surely he is relieving himself in the closet of the cool chamber.”

³ And he came to the sheepfolds by the way, where there was a cave, and Saul went in ^(A)to relieve himself.^[a] Now David and his men were sitting in the innermost parts ^(B)of the cave.