# General Information:

Samuel has renewed Saul's kingdom at Gilgal and Samuel has reminded the people to follow the Lord.

# Saul was thirty years old ... over Israel

The text of this verse in ancient copies seems to have been mutilated, so modern versions have many different translations. They are all attempts to represent the most probable meaning of the original text.

# chose three thousand men

"chose 3,000 men" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/translate-numbers]])

# Two thousand were with him

"2,000 men were with him" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/translate-numbers]])

# Michmash

name of a city (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/translate-names]])

# Gibeah of Benjamin

Gibeah is a town. See how you translated this in [1 Samuel 10:26](../10/26.md).

# The rest of the soldiers he sent home

"He sent the rest of the soldiers home"

# translationWords

* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/names/saul]]
* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/other/reign]]
* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/kt/israel]]
* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/kt/elect]]
* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/names/bethel]]
* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/names/jonathan]]
* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/names/benjamin]]
* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/other/send]]
* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/other/tent]]