1Sa 13:2, 6-7, 14:2 | ESV | STEP | Saul chose three thousand men of Israel . Two thousand were with Saul in Michmash and the hill country of Bethel , and a thousand were with Jonathan in Gibeah of Benjamin . The rest of the people he sent home, every man to his tent .

1 Samuel 13:2

2 Saul chose three thousand men of Israel. Two thousand were with Saul in ^aMichmash and the hill country of Bethel, and a thousand were with Jonathan in ^bGibeah of Benjamin. The rest of the people he sent home, every man to his tent.

1 Samuel 13:6-7

6 When the men of Israel saw that they were in trouble (for the people were hard pressed), the people hid themselves ^cin caves and in holes and in rocks and in tombs and in cisterns, 7 and some Hebrews crossed the fords of the Jordan to the land of Gad and Gilead. Saul was still at Gilgal, and all the people followed him trembling.

1 Samuel 14:2

2 Saul was staying in the outskirts of Gibeah in the pomegranate cave ^{▼▼Or under the pomegranate [tree]} at ^eMigron. The people who were with him were about ^fsix hundred men,