Michmash

And Saul chose for himself three thousand men of Israel. And two thousand were with Saul at Michmash and at mount Bethel. Then one thousand were with Jonathan at Gibeah of Benjamin. But the remainder of the people, he sent back, each one to his own tent.

And the Philistines gathered to do battle against Israel, thirty thousand chariots, and six thousand horsemen, and the remainder of the common people, who were very many, like the sand that is on the shore of the sea. And ascending, they encamped at Michmash, toward the east of Bethaven.

And Samuel said to him, “What have you done?” Saul responded: “Since I saw that the people were scattering away from me, and you had not arrived after the agreed upon days, and yet the Philistines had gathered together at Michmash,

And Saul, and his son Jonathan, and the people who had been found to be with them, were at Gibeah of Benjamin. But the Philistines had settled in at Michmash.

Then the army of the Philistines went out in order to go across Michmash.

One boulder projected toward the north, opposite Michmash, and the other toward the south, opposite Gibeah.

Therefore, on that day, they struck down the Philistines, from Michmash as far as Aijalon. But the people were exceedingly wearied.

The men of Michmas, one hundred twenty-two.

The men of Michmas, one hundred twenty-two.

But the sons of Benjamin lived from Geba, at Michmash, and Aija, and Bethel and in its daughter villages,

He will approach Aiath; he will cross into Migron; he will entrust his vessels to Michmash.