^{7 Ref} And he took a yoke of oxen, and cut them in pieces, and sent them throughout all the borders of Israel by the hand of messengers, saying, Whosoever cometh not forth after Saul and after Samuel, so shall it be done unto his oxen. And the dread of Jehovah fell on the people, and they came out as one man.

^{8 Ref} And he numbered them in Bezek; and the children of Israel were three hundred thousand, and the men of Judah thirty thousand.