A search of I Samuel 13:1-7 (KJV):
There are differing accounts for the amount of time Saul had reigned when he chose three thousand men of Israel to divide between Jonathan and himself. Two thousand of the men remained with Saul in Michmash and Mount Beth-el and one thousand went with Jonathan in Gibeah of Benjamin. The remaining people of Israel were sent to their tents.
Jonathan defeated a Philistine garrison in Geba. Word spread to the Philistines about the incident. “And Saul blew the trumpet throughout all the land, saying, Let the Hebrews hear. And all Israel heard say that Saul had smitten a garrison of the Philistines, and that Israel also was had in abomination with the Philistines. And the people were called together after Saul to Gilgal” (vs. 3,4).
“And the Philistines gathered themselves together to fight with Israel, thirty thousand chariots, and six thousand horsemen, and people as the sand which is on the sea shore in multitude: and they came up, and pitched in Michmash, eastward from Beth-aven. When the men of Israel saw that they were in a strait, (for the people were distressed,) then the people did hide themselves in caves, and in thickets, and in rocks, and in high places, and in pits. And some of the Hebrews went over Jordan to the land of Gad and Gilead. As for Saul, he was yet in Gilgal, and all the people followed him trembling” (vs. 5-7).
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