Saul called his forces together and inspected them at Telem: there were 200,000 soldiers from Israel and 10,000 from Judah.
At once King Joram left Samaria and gathered all his troops.
Ziph, Telem, Bealoth,
Saul gathered them at Bezek: there were 300,000 from Israel and 30,000 from Judah.
Samuel left Gilgal and went on his way. The rest of the people followed Saul as he went to join his soldiers. They went from Gilgal to Gibeah in the territory of Benjamin. Saul inspected his troops, about six hundred men.
Then he and his men went to the city of Amalek and waited in ambush in a dry riverbed.