1. Some men from Ziph came to Saul at Gibeah and told him that David was hiding on Mount Hachilah at the edge of the Judean wilderness.
2. Saul went at once with 3,000 of the best soldiers in Israel to the wilderness of Ziph to look for David,
3. and camped by the road on Mount Hachilah. David was still in the wilderness, and when he learnt that Saul had come to look for him,
4. he sent spies and found out that Saul was indeed there.
5. He went at once and located the exact place where Saul and Abner son of Ner, commander of Saul's army, slept. Saul slept inside the camp, and his men camped round him.
6. Then David asked Ahimelech the Hittite, and Abishai the brother of Joab (their mother was Zeruiah), “Which of you two will go to Saul's camp with me?”“I will,” Abishai answered.