'Started' in the Bible

But Samuel said, "What have you done?" Saul replied, "When I saw that the army had started to abandon me and that you didn't come at the appointed time and that the Philistines had assembled at Micmash,

On the third day you should go down quickly and come to the place where you hid yourself the day this all started. Stay near the stone Ezel.

David restrained his men with these words and did not allow them to rise up against Saul. Then Saul left the cave and started down the road.