Saul was thirty years old when he became king, and he reigned over Israel forty- two years.
The animals you choose must be year-old males without defect, and you may take them from the sheep or the goats.
With what shall I come before the Lord and bow down before the exalted God? Shall I come before him with burnt offerings, with calves a year old?
Yet if you persist in doing evil, both you and your king will perish.”
Saul chose three thousand men from Israel; two thousand were with him at Mikmash and in the hill country of Bethel, and a thousand were with Jonathan at Gibeah in Benjamin. The rest of the men he sent back to their homes.