5 Bible Verses about Dividing Into Three Groups

Then separating the three hundred men into three bands, he gave every man a horn, and a vessel in which was a flaming branch.

And David sent the people out, a third of them under the orders of Joab, and a third under the orders of Abishai, son of Zeruiah, Joab's brother, and a third under Ittai the Gittite. And the king said to the people, And I myself will certainly go out with you.

And he gave them orders, saying, This is what you are to do: the third part of you, who come in on the Sabbath and keep the watch of the king's house,

This is what you are to do: let a third of you, of the priests and Levites, who come in on the Sabbath, keep the doors

And he overcame the Moabites, and he had them measured with a line when they were stretched out on the earth; marking out two lines for death and one full line for life. So the Moabites became servants to David and gave him offerings.