It happened, when Saul was returned from following the Philistines, that it was told him, saying, Behold, David is in the wilderness of En Gedi.
A sampling of the critical comment here is that, "1Sam.  24,1 Samuel 26 give two versions of the same story";[1] "We have two versions of the same story":[2] etc.  (See my chapter introduction, above, for my response to this type of comment.)  Caird admitted that, "The writers of both our sources are very accurate in their use of verbs of motion";[3] but he offered no explanation whatever of how "both of those writers" could possibly have been inaccurate in their use of every noun, adverb, adjective and pronoun in both accounts.  To us, the admitted accuracy of the verbs of motion is proof of the accuracy of both narratives as they stand in the sacred text.