1 Samuel 26:2

Then Saul arose ,.... Immediately, glad of an opportunity to seize on David, having the same disposition towards him as ever; and perhaps had repented he had not laid hold on him when he followed him out of the cave:

and went down to the wilderness of Ziph : or towards it:

having three thousand chosen men of Israel ; young men, so called, because usually chosen for business, and for war particularly, rather than old men; the same number he took with him when he sought him at Engedi, 1 Samuel 24:2 ,

to seek David in the wilderness of Ziph ; where or whereabouts he was informed by the Ziphites he was.