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.
"Let the Hebrews hear"  (1 Samuel 13:3).  Some have tried to make the appearance of this word here as evidence that some foreigner wrote Samuel, affirming that `Hebrews' is a derogatory word applied to Israelites. Willis stated that, "There is no reason to regard `Hebrews' as a derogatory term."[6]  Abraham himself was called `a Hebrew'  (Genesis 14:13); and even the beloved Joseph referred to his native land as, "The land of the Hebrews"  (Genesis 40:15).