² Saul chose three thousand men from Israel; two thousand^(A) were with him at Mikmash^(B) and in the hill country of Bethel, and a thousand were with Jonathan at Gibeah^(C) in Benjamin. The rest of the men he sent back to their homes.

² So Saul went down to the Desert of Ziph, with his three thousand select Israelite troops, to search^(A) there for David.