2 Samuel 1:1-3

Revised Geneva Translation

1 After the death of Saul, when David had returned from the slaughter of the Amalekites and had been in Ziklag for two days,

² behold, on the third day, a man came from out of Saul’s camp with his clothes torn and earth upon his head. And when he came to David, he fell to the earth and prostrated himself.

³ Then David said to him, “Where have you come from?” And he said to him, “I have escaped from the camp of Israel.”