Saul and his men went to look for him. ¹  But David was informed and went down to the rock and stayed in the desert of Maon. When Saul heard about it, he pursued David in the desert of Maon.

Saul camped by the road on the hill of Hakilah near Jeshimon, but David was staying in the desert. When he realized that Saul had come to the desert to find ¹  him,

The wild animals of the desert honor me, the jackals and ostriches, because I put water in the desert and streams in the wilderness, to quench the thirst of my chosen people,

They will be like a shrub ¹  in the desert. They will not experience good things even when they happen. It will be as though they were growing in the desert, in a salt land where no one can live.

and the Horites in their hill country of Seir, as far as El Paran, which is near the desert. ¹ 

But as for you, ¹  turn back and head for the desert by the way to the Red Sea.” ² 

Then I sent messengers from the Kedemoth ¹  Desert to King Sihon of Heshbon with an offer of peace:

They did not see ¹  what he did to you in the desert before you reached this place,

Joshua and all Israel pretended to be defeated by them and they retreated along the way to the desert.

When they left ¹  Egypt, Israel traveled ²  through the desert as far as the Red Sea and then came to Kadesh.

(24:2) When Saul returned from pursuing the Philistines, they told him, “Look, David is in the desert of En Gedi.”

Look, I will be waiting at the fords of the desert until word from you ¹  reaches me.”

He deprives the leaders of the earth ¹  of their understanding; ²  he makes them wander in a trackless desert waste. ³ 

to cause it to rain on an uninhabited land, ¹  a desert where there are no human beings, ² 

They wandered through the wilderness on a desert road; they found no city in which to live.

It is better to live ¹  in a desert land ²  than with a quarrelsome and easily-provoked ³  woman.

Let the desert and dry region be happy; ¹  let the wilderness ²  rejoice and bloom like a lily!

the people of Dedan, Tema, Buz, ¹  all the desert people who cut their hair short at the temples; ² 

They will hear, ‘Run! Save yourselves! Even if you must be like a lonely shrub in the desert!’ ¹ 

The Lord’s angel ¹  found Hagar near a spring of water in the desert – the spring that is along the road to Shur. ²