1 Samuel 13:1-2

Revised Standard Version

Saul’s Unlawful Sacrifice

13 Saul was . . .^[a] years old when he began to reign; and he reigned . . . and two^[b] years over Israel.

² 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 Gib′e-ah of Benjamin; the rest of the people he sent home, every man to his tent.