Saul knew David's voice, and said, Is this your voice, my son David? David said, It is my voice, my lord, O king.
"Like one who hunts a partridge in the mountains"  (1 Samuel 26:19). The older versions use the word "flea" instead of "partridge" here, and critics love to cite this as one of the similarities with the event at Engedi, but, as H. P. Smith wrote, "This reading gives a sense more in accord with the context."[15]