Then answered David and said to Ahimelech the Hittite, and to Abishai the son of Zeruiah, brother to Joab, saying, Who will go down with me to Saul to the camp? Abishai said, I will go down with you.
"There lay Saul, with his spear stuck in the ground at his head"  (1 Samuel 26:7).  "The lance standing upright is still the sign of the Sheik's quarters among the Arabs."[7]