¹⁵ Then Samuel arose and went up from Gilgal to Gibeah of ^[a]Benjamin. And Saul numbered the people present with him, ^(A)about six hundred men.

² And Saul was sitting in the outskirts of ^(A)Gibeah under a pomegranate tree which is in Migron. The people who were with him were about six hundred men.

² Saul chose for himself three thousand men of Israel. Two thousand were with Saul in ^(A)Michmash and in the mountains of Bethel, and a thousand were with ^(B)Jonathan in ^(C)Gibeah of Benjamin. The rest of the people he sent away, every man to his tent.

⁶ When the men of Israel saw that they were in danger (for the people were distressed), then the people ^(A)hid in caves, in thickets, in rocks, in holes, and in pits. ⁷ And some of the Hebrews crossed over the Jordan to the ^(B)land of Gad and Gilead.

As for Saul, he was still in Gilgal, and all the people followed him trembling.