Indeed, there is no one holy like the LORD, indeed, there is no one besides you, there is no rock like our God.

On the third day go down quickly and come to the place where you hid earlier. Remain beside the rock at Ezel.

I'll shoot three arrows to the side of the rock as though I were shooting at a target.

The servant went. Then David came out from the south side of the rock, fell on his face, and bowed down three times. The men kissed each other, and both of them cried, but David even more.

When Saul and his men went to search for David, some people told David, and he went down to the Rock of Escape and remained in the wilderness of Maon. Saul heard this and he pursued David into the wilderness of Maon.

So Saul turned around from pursuing David and went to meet the Philistines. Therefore, they call that place the Rock of Escape.