ESV Study Bible | English Standard Version

17 While he was yet speaking, there came another and said, y “The Chaldeans formed z three groups and made a raid on the camels and took them and struck down the servants with the edge of the sword, and I alone have escaped to tell you.”

16 And he divided the 300 men into three companies and put trumpets into the hands of all of them and empty jars, with n torches inside the jars.

11 d And the next day Saul put the people e in three companies. And they came into the midst of the camp in the morning watch and struck down the Ammonites until the heat of the day. And those who survived were scattered, so that no two of them were left together.