1. Now Saul had chased the Philistines away. Then he was told, “David is in the Desert of En Gedi.”
2. So he chose 3,000 men from all Israel. He took these men and began looking for David and his men. They looked near the Rocks of the Wild Goats.
3. Saul came to the sheep pens beside the road. A cave was there, and he went in to relieve himself. Now David and his men were hiding far back in the cave.
4. The men said to David, “Today is the day the Lord talked about! The Lord told you, ‘I will give your enemy to you. You can do anything you want with him.’”Then David crawled near Saul. He cut off a corner of Saul’s robe. But Saul did not notice him.
5. Later David felt guilty because he had cut off a corner of Saul’s robe.