“And he tooke the people, and diuided them into three companies, and laide waite in the field, and looked, and behold, the people were come forth out of the citie, and he rose vp against them, and smote them.”
1611 King James Version (KJV)
9:43 Three companies - Whereof he kept one with himself, ver.#44|, and put the rest under other commanders.