(2) Saul chose him three thousand men of Israel; whereof two thousand were with Saul in Michmash and in mount Bethel, and a thousand were with Jonathan in Gibeah of Benjamin: and the rest of the people he sent every man to his tent.
This choice of some, and disbanding others, was without taking counsel of God, it should seem, for we hear nothing of the Lord's direction in it. Reader! depend upon it, in the smallest, as well as the highest concerns, nothing should be undertaken without God. In all thy ways, is the precept, acknowledge him; and then the promise is absolute, he will direct thy paths. Proverbs 3:6. For my own part I desire to eye Jesus in everything; for well assured I am, that he is in everything that concerns his people.