In older English 'haunt' conveyed no reproach, but meant simply to spend time in or frequent a place. Thus Tindale translates Joh 3:22 'After these thinges cam Jesus and his disciples into the Jewes londe, and ther he haunted with them and baptized.' So 1Sa 30:31; Eze 26:17, and the subst. in 1Sa 23:22 'know and see his place where his haunt is.'
go, I pray you, prepare yet, and know and see his place where his foot is; who hath seen him there? for one hath said unto me, He is very subtile.
and to those in Hebron, and to all the places where David had gone up and down, he and his men.
And have lifted up for thee a lamentation, And said to thee: How hast thou perished, That art inhabited from the seas, The praised city, that was strong in the sea, She and her inhabitants, Who put their terror on all her inhabitants!
After these things came Jesus and his disciples to the land of Judea, and there he did tarry with them, and was baptizing;