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

³ Jonathan defeated ^(A)the garrison of the Philistines that was ^(B)at Geba, and the Philistines heard of it. And Saul ^(C)blew the trumpet throughout all the land, saying, “Let the Hebrews hear.”