Saul picked three thousand men, keeping two thousand of them with him in Michmash and in the hill country of Bethel and sending one thousand with his son Jonathan to Gibeah, in the territory of the tribe of Benjamin. The rest of the men Saul sent home.

Wicked people watch good people and try to kill them;

Those who want to kill me lay traps for me, and those who want to hurt me threaten to ruin me; they never stop plotting against me.

The wild goats live in the high mountains, and the rock badgers hide in the cliffs.

When their rulers are thrown down from rocky cliffs, the people will admit that my words were true.