Saul was forty years old when he began to reign; and when he had reigned two years over Israel,
Wherewith shall I come before Jehovah, and bow myself before the high God? shall I come before him with burnt-offerings, with calves a year old?
Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male a year old: ye shall take it from the sheep, or from the goats:
But if ye shall still do wickedly, ye shall be consumed, both ye and your king.
Saul chose him three thousand men of Israel, whereof two thousand were with Saul in Michmash and in the mount of Beth-el, and a thousand were with Jonathan in Gibeah of Benjamin: and the rest of the people he sent every man to his tent.