David Spares Saul’s Life1In 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. 3He came to the sheep pens along the way; a cave was there, and Saul went in to relieve himself. David and his men were far back in the cave.