Sha’ul was ... years old when he began to reign. And when he had reigned two years over Yisra’ĕ
‘Let the lamb be a perfect one, a year old male. Take it from the sheep or from the goats.
With what shall I come before יהוה, bow myself before the high Elohim? Shall I come before Him with burnt offerings, with calves a year old?
“But if you persist in doing evil, both you and your sovereign are consumed.”
Sha’ul chose for himself three thousand men of Yisra’ĕ