19 Finally they said: “Look! There is a festival of Jehovah from year to year in Shiʹloh,+ which is to the north of Bethʹel, toward the east of the highway that goes up from Bethʹel to Sheʹchem+ and toward the south of Le·boʹnah.”

2 And Saul proceeded to choose for himself three thousand men out of Israel; and two thousand came to be with Saul at Michʹmash+ and in the mountainous region of Bethʹel, and a thousand proved to be with Jonʹa·than+ at Gibʹe·ah+ of Benjamin, and the rest of the people he sent away, each one to his tent.*

29 Then he placed the one in Bethʹel,+ and the other he put in Dan.+