Of the children of Binyamin, the brothers of Sha'ul, three thousand: for hitherto the greatest part of them had kept their allegiance to the house of Sha'ul.
Aviner also spoke in the ears of Binyamin: and Aviner went also to speak in the ears of David in Chevron all that seemed good to Yisra'el, and to the whole house of Binyamin.
They were armed with bows, and could use both the right hand and the left in slinging stones and in shooting arrows from the bow: they were of Sha'ul's brothers of Binyamin.