Old Testament · SCRIPTURE
1 Samuel 26:4
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David sent out spies to verify that Saul had arrived.
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David therefore sent out spies, and understood that Saul was come in very deed.
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David therefore sent out spies, and understood that Saul had certainly come.
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David therefore sent out spies, and understood that Saul was come of a certainty.
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1 Samuel 26
2 So Saul, accompanied by three thousand chosen men of Israel, went down to the Wilderness of Ziph to search for David there.
3 Saul camped beside the road at the hill of Hachilah opposite Jeshimon, but David was living in the wilderness. When he realized that Saul had followed him there,
4 David sent out spies to verify that Saul had arrived.
5 Then David set out and went to the place where Saul had camped. He saw the place where Saul and Abner son of Ner, the general of his army, had lain down. Saul was lying inside the inner circle of the camp, with the troops camped around him.
6 And David asked Ahimelech the Hittite and Abishai son of Zeruiah, Joab’s brother, “Who will go down with me to Saul in the camp?” “I will go with you,” answered Abishai.
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