Michmash

when he chose three thousand of Isra'el's men. Two thousand of them were with Sha'ul in Mikhmas and in the hills of Beit-El, and a thousand were with Y'honatan in Giv'at-Binyamin. The rest of the people he sent back to their respective tents.

while the P'lishtim assembled themselves together to make war on Isra'el - 30,000 chariots, 6,000 horsemen and an army as large as the number of sand grains on the seashore. They came up and pitched camp at Mikhmas, east of Beit-Aven.

Sh'mu'el said, "What have you done?" Sha'ul answered, "I saw that the army was drifting away from me, that you hadn't come during the time appointed The Hebrew text lacks the number. and that the P'lishtim had assembled at Mikhmas.

Sha'ul, Y'honatan his son and the men with him took up quarters at Giv'at-Binyamin, while the P'lishtim remained in camp at Mikhmas.

A garrison of the P'lishtim had gone out to the pass of Mikhmas.

The one spur rose up on the north, in front of Mikhmas, and the other on the south, in front of Geva.

That day they had attacked the P'lishtim from Mikhmas to Ayalon; but the people were very exhausted.

The people of Binyamin lived from Geva onward, in Mikhmas and 'Ayah, in Beit-El and its villages,

He has come to 'Ayat and passed through Migron. He has stored his equipment at Mikhmas.