1 Samuel 13:1-3

New International Version - UK

Samuel rebukes Saul

13 Saul was thirty^[a] years old when he became king, and he reigned over Israel for forty-^[b] two years.

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

³ Jonathan attacked the Philistine outpost at Geba, and the Philistines heard about it. Then Saul had the trumpet blown throughout the land and said, ‘Let the Hebrews hear!’