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1 Samuel 13:23

Michmash

21 The charge was a pim for sharpening a plowshare or mattock, a third of a shekel for sharpening a pitchfork or an axe, and a third of a shekel for repointing an oxgoad.

22 So on the day of battle not a sword or spear could be found in the hands of the troops with Saul and Jonathan; only Saul and his son Jonathan had weapons.

And a garrison of the Philistines had gone out to the pass at Michmash.
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BSB
And a garrison of the Philistines had gone out to the pass at Michmash.
KJV
And the garrison of the Philistines went out to the passage of Michmash.
WEB
The garrison of the Philistines went out to the pass of Michmash.
ASV
And the garrison of the Philistines went out unto the pass of Michmash.
DARBY
And a garrison of the Philistines went out to the passage of Michmash.
BLB
And the garrison of the Philistines went out to the pass of Michmash.
ÅB
Filistrenes forpost rykket fram til Mikmas-skaret.
OTB
Filisternes garnison rykket ut til passet ved Mikmas.
B1930
Filistrenes forpost rykket frem til Mikmas-skaret.

Study notes (Tyndale)

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Cross references

  • Isaiah 10:28

    Assyria has entered Aiath and passed through Migron, storing their supplies at Michmash.

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  • 1 Samuel 14:4–5

    Now there were cliffs on both sides of the pass that Jonathan intended to cross to reach the Philistine outpost. One was named Bozez and the other Seneh.

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  • 1 Samuel 14:1

    One day Jonathan son of Saul said to the young man bearing his armor, “Come, let us cross over to the Philistine outpost on the other side.” But Jonathan did not tell his father.

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  • 1 Samuel 13:5

    Now the Philistines assembled to fight against Israel with three thousand chariots, six thousand horsemen, and troops as numerous as the sand on the seashore. They went up and camped at Michmash, east of Beth-aven.

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  • 1 Samuel 13:2–3

    He chose for himself three thousand men of Israel: Two thousand were with Saul at Michmash and in the hill country of Bethel, and a thousand were with Jonathan in Gibeah of Benjamin. And the rest of the troops he sent away, each to his own home.

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  • 2 Samuel 23:14

    At that time David was in the stronghold, and the garrison of the Philistines was at Bethlehem.

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