Saul chose him three thousand men of Israel, of which two thousand were with Saul in Michmash and in the Mount of Bethel, and one thousand were with Jonathan in Gibeah of Benjamin: and the rest of the people he sent every man to his tent.
"Israel had become odious to the Philistines"  (1 Samuel 13:4).  The text here literally means, "They became stinking to the Philistines."[7]