They stopped what they had been doing. The reader should not believe that they were sitting or lying.
# Then they
"Then the Ziphites"
# Ziph
This is the name of a place. See how you translated this in [1 Samuel 23:14](./13.md).
# Jeshimon
This is the name of a desert area near the Dead Sea. It can also be translated as "the Judean Wilderness" or "the wasteland." See how you translated this in [1 Samuel 23:19](./19.md). (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/translate-names]])