² Now Saul chose for himself 3,000 men of Israel, of which 2,000 were with Saul in ^(A)Michmash and in the hill country of Bethel, while 1,000 were with Jonathan at ^(B)Gibeah of Benjamin. But he sent away the rest of the people, each to his tent.

⁶ When the men of Israel saw that they were in a strait (for the people were hard-pressed), then ^(A)the people hid themselves in caves, in thickets, in cliffs, in cellars, and in pits. ⁷ Also some of the Hebrews crossed the Jordan into the land of ^(B)Gad and Gilead. But as for Saul, he was still in Gilgal, and all the people followed him trembling.

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