13. So David and his men got up, about six hundred men, and went out from Keilah and wandered wherever they could go. When it was told to Saul that David had escaped from Keilah, he stopped his pursuit.
14. David remained in the wilderness, in the strongholds, and in the hill country in the wilderness of Ziph. And Saul sought him continually, but God did not give him into his hand.
15. When David realized that Saul had gone out to seek his life, David was in the wilderness of Ziph at Horesh.
16. So Jonathan the son of Saul got up and went to David at Horesh, and encouraged him through God.
17. He said to him, “Do not be afraid, for the hand of my father Saul will not find you. You will be king over Israel, and I will be second to you. My father Saul knows this also.”
18. Then the two of them made a covenant before Yahweh. David remained at Horesh, and Jonathan went to his house.
19. Then the Ziphites went up to Saul at Gibeah, saying, “Is not David hiding among us in the strongholds at Horesh on the hill of Hakilah, which is south of Jeshimon?
20. So then, O king, whenever you want to come down, come down, and it will be for us to deliver him into the hand of the king.”
21. And Saul said to them, “May you be blessed by Yahweh, for you have shown me compassion!
22. Go, please, make certain again! Find out and see exactly where he is and who has seen him there! For they have said to me, ‘He is very cunning.’
23. Look, find out all of the hiding places where he hides. Then return to me with dependable information, and I will go with you. And then if he is there in the land, then I will seek him among all the thousands of Judah.”
24. Then they got up and went to Ziph before Saul. Now David and his men were in the wilderness of Maon in the Arabah, to the south of Jeshimon.