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1 Samuel - ch 23 v 21 - 29
- And Saul said, Blessed be ye of Jehovah; for ye have had compassion on me.
- Go, I pray you, make yet more sure, and know and see his place where his haunt is, `and' who hath seen him there; for it is told me that he dealeth very subtly.
- See therefore, and take knowledge of all the lurking-places where he hideth himself, and come ye again to me of a certainty, and I will go with you: and it shall come to pass, if he be in the land, that I will search him out among all the thousands of Judah.
- And they arose, and went to Ziph before Saul: but David and his men were in the wilderness of Maon, in the Arabah on the south of the desert.
- And Saul and his men went to seek him. And they told David: wherefore he came down to the rock, and abode in the wilderness of Maon. And when Saul heard `that', he pursued after David in the wilderness of Maon.
- And Saul went on this side of the mountain, and David and his men on that side of the mountain: and David made haste to get away for fear of Saul; for Saul and his men compassed David and his men round about to take them.
- But there came a messenger unto Saul, saying, Haste thee, and come; for the Philistines have made a raid upon the land.
- So Saul returned from pursuing after David, and went against the Philistines: therefore they called that place Sela-hammahlekoth.
- And David went up from thence, and dwelt in the strongholds of En-gedi.
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