NET Bible
"David sent scouts and verified that Saul had indeed arrived."
— 1 Samuel 26:4, NET Bible
“David therefore sent out spies, and understood that Saul was come in very deed.”
“David therefore sent out spies, and understood that Saul was come of a certainty. ”
“David therefore sent out spies, and understood that Saul had certainly come.”
“He sent spies, and learned that he was most certainly come thither.”
“And so David sent out watchers, and got word from them that Saul was certainly coming.”
“David therefore sent out spies, and understood that Saul was come in very deed.”
David Spares Saul’s Life Again The Ziphites came to Saul at Gibeah and said,“Isn’t David hiding on the hill of Hakilah near Jeshimon?”
So Saul arose and went down to the wilderness of Ziph, accompanied by three thousand select men of Israel, to look for David in the wilderness of Ziph.
Saul camped by the road on the hill of Hakilah near Jeshimon, but David was staying in the wilderness. When he realized that Saul had come to the wilderness to find him,
David sent scouts and verified that Saul had indeed arrived.
So David set out and went to the place where Saul was camped. David saw the place where Saul and Abner son of Ner, the general in command of his army, were sleeping. Now Saul was lying in the entrenchment, and the army was camped all around him.
David said to Ahimelech the Hittite and Abishai son of Zeruiah, Joab’s brother,“Who will go down with me to Saul in the camp?” Abishai replied,“I will go down with you.”
So David and Abishai approached the army at night and found Saul lying asleep in the entrenchment with his spear stuck in the ground by his head. Abner and the army were lying all around him.