And he went from year to year in a circuit to Bethel and Gilgal and Mizpeh, and judged Israel in all those places.

And you shall go forward from there, and you shall come to the great tree of Tabor. And there you shall meet three men going up to God to Bethel, one carrying three kids, and another carrying three loaves of bread, and another carrying a skin of wine.

then Saul chose for himself three thousand from Israel. Two thousand of these were with Saul in Michmash and in mount Bethel, and a thousand were with Jonathan in Gibeah of Benjamin. And of the rest of the people he sent each man to his tent.

to the ones in Bethel, and to the ones in Ramoth of the south, and to the ones in Jattir,