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Saul chose for himself three thousand men of Israel, of which two thousand were with Saul in Michmash and in the Mount of Bethel, and one thousand were with Jonathan in Gibeah of Benjamin. He sent the rest of the people to their own tents.
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Verse 2. Dwellings, from Galgal (Salien) or from some other general assembly. Calmet.—These 3000 were to be the king’s guards, supported at the expense of the nation, that the people might begin to feel one part of the royal prerogative. Salien, A.Calmet. 1089.
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