Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

And of the children of Benjamin, the kindred of Saul, three thousand: for hitherto the greatest part of them had kept the ward of the house of Saul.

The greatest part of them

Bible References

Kindred

1 Chronicles 12:2
They were armed with bows and could use both the right hand and the left in hurling stones and shooting arrows out of a bow, even of Saul's brethren of Benjamin.
Genesis 31:23
Then he took his brethren with him and pursued after him seven days' journey; and they overtook him in Mount Gilead.

The greatest part of them

2 Samuel 2:8
But Abner, the son of Ner, captain of Saul's host, took Ishbosheth, the son of Saul, and brought him over to Mahanaim