Now these are those who came to David to Ziklag, while he yet kept himself close because of Saul the son of Kish; and they were among the mighty men, his helpers in war.
The significance of this paragraph is that some of Saul's kinsmen defected to David at Ziklag, even a prominent citizen of Saul's home town, a Gibeonite.  The material in this chapter is found nowhere else in the Scriptures.  The men named here were competent and able soldiers.  We reject the snide unbelieving comment of Curtis and Madsen that, "Since on the death of Saul, the tribe of Benjamin remained faithful to his house, how much less can we believe that such desertions to David took place during his lifetime."[1]  Such a comment is important only because it alerts us to the fact that the authors of it were unbelievers in the ultimate sense of the word.  Foolish indeed are those who trust such writers to interpret the Holy Scriptures for them.