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-\v 1 Saul was [thirty] years old when he began to reign. He ruled for [forty] years.
+\v 1 Saul was thirty years old when he began to reign. He ruled for forty years.
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 \v 2 Some years after he became king, he chose three thousand men from the Israelite army to go with him to fight the Philistines. Then he sent the other soldiers back home. Of the men he chose, two thousand stayed with Saul at Micmash and in the hill country near Bethel, and a thousand stayed with Saul's son Jonathan at Gibeah, in the area of the tribe of Benjamin.