Saul alerted the army, and at Telaim reviewed two hundred thousand foot soldiers and ten thousand men of Judah.
King Joram set out from Samaria and mustered all Israel.
Ziph, Telem, Bealoth,
When Saul reviewed them in Bezek, there were three hundred thousand Israelites and seventy thousand Judahites.
Then Samuel set out from Gilgal and went his own way; but what was left of the army went up after Saul to meet the soldiers, going from Gilgal to Gibeah of Benjamin. Saul then counted the soldiers he had with him, about six hundred.
Saul went to the city of Amalek and set up an ambush in the wadi.