Michmash

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.

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.

¹¹ “What have you done?” Samuel asked. And Saul replied, “When I saw that the troops were deserting me, and that you did not come at the appointed time and the Philistines were gathering at Michmash,

¹² I thought, ‘Now the Philistines will descend upon me at Gilgal, and I have not sought the favor of the LORD.’ So I felt compelled to offer the burnt offering.”

Now Saul and Jonathan his son and the troops with them were staying in Geba of Benjamin, while the Philistines camped at Michmash.

And a garrison of the Philistines had gone out to the pass at Michmash.

One cliff stood to the north toward Michmash, and the other to the south toward Geba.

That day, after the Israelites had struck down the Philistines from Michmash to Aijalon, the people were very faint.

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

³¹ The descendants of Benjamin from Geba lived in Michmash, Aija, and Bethel with its villages;

³² in Anathoth, Nob, Ananiah,