1 Samuel 24:3 meaning and explanation
Soon Saul came to the sheepfolds along the road, where there was a cave, and he went in to relieve himself. And David and his men were hiding in the recesses of the cave.
1 Samuel 24:3, Berean Standard Bible
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Saul is hunting David with three thousand chosen men, and the chase brings him to the wilderness of En-gedi. The narrator notes the sheepfolds and the cave almost casually, but the detail matters: Saul enters to relieve himself, unaware that David and his men are hidden deeper in the same cave.
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