went down to the desert of Ziph, accompanied by three thousand select men of Israel, to look for David in the desert of Ziph.
1 tn Heb “to search [for].”
2 tn Heb “upon the face of.”
3 tn Or “the region of the Rocks of the Mountain Goats,” if this expression is understood as a place name (cf. NASB, NIV, NRSV, TEV, CEV).