1 Samuel 24:2

24:2 So Saul took three thousand select men from all Israel and went to find ¹  David and his men in the region of ²  the rocks of the mountain goats. ³ 

1 Samuel 24:8

24:8 Afterward David got up and went out of the cave. He called out after Saul, “My lord, O king!” When Saul looked behind him, David kneeled down and bowed with his face to the ground.

1 Samuel 24:21

24:21 So now swear to me in the Lord’s name ⁴  that you will not kill ⁵  my descendants after me or destroy my name from the house of my father.”

¹ tn Heb “to search [for].”

² tn Heb “upon the face of.”

³ tn Or “the region of the Rocks of the Mountain Goats,” if this expression is understood as a place name (cf. NASB, NIV, NRSV, TEV, CEV).

⁴ tn Heb “by the Lord.”

⁵ tn Heb “cut off.”