He took a yoke of oxen and cut them in pieces, then sent them throughout all the borders of Israel by the hand of messengers, saying, “Whoever doesn’t come out after Saul and after Samuel, so shall it be done to his oxen.”
The dread of the LORD fell on the people, and they came out as one man.
He counted them in Bezek; and the children of Israel were three hundred thousand, and the men of Judah thirty thousand.