He went from year to year in circuit to Bethel and Gilgal, and Mizpah; and he judged Israel in all those places.

"Then you shall go on forward from there, and you shall come to the oak of Tabor; and three men shall meet you there going up to God to Bethel, one carrying three young goats, and another carrying three loaves of bread, and another carrying a bottle of wine:

Saul chose him 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: and the rest of the people he sent every man to his tent.

He sent it to those who were in Bethel, and to those who were in Ramoth of the South, and to those who were in Jattir,