²⁵ Saul and his men went to seek him. They told David: why he came down to the rock, and abode in the wilderness of Maon. When Saul heard [that], he pursued after David in the wilderness of Maon.

⁸ He struck them hip and thigh with a great slaughter: and he went down and lived in the cleft of the rock of Etam.

²⁸ So Saul returned from pursuing after David, and went against the Philistines: therefore they called that place Sela Hammahlekoth.