1. SAUL WAS [forty] years old when he began to reign; and when he had reigned two years over Israel,
2. Saul chose 3,000 men of Israel; 2,000 were with [him] in Michmash and the hill country of Bethel, and 1,000 with Jonathan in Gibeah of Benjamin. The rest of the men he sent away, each one to his home.