Saul reigned one year; and when he had reigned two years over Israel,
Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male of the first year: ye shall take it out from the sheep, or from the goats:
Wherewith shall I come before the Lord, and bow myself before the high God? shall I come before him with burnt offerings, with calves of a year old?
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 mount Beth–el, and a thousand were with Jonathan in Gib´e-ah of Benjamin: and the rest of the people he sent every man to his tent.