Saul chose him three thousand men of Israel; of which two thousand were with Saul in Michmash and in mount Bethel, and a thousand were with Jonathan in Gibeah of Benjamin: and the rest of the people he sent every man to his tent.

And the Philistines gathered themselves together to fight with Israel, thirty thousand chariots, and six thousand horsemen, and people as the sand which is on the sea shore in multitude: and they came up, and encamped in Michmash, eastward from Bethaven.

And Samuel said, What have you done? And Saul said, Because I saw that the people were scattered from me, and that you came not within the days appointed, and that the Philistines gathered themselves together at Michmash;

And Saul, and Jonathan his son, and the people that were present with them, abode in Gibeah of Benjamin: but the Philistines encamped in Michmash.

And the garrison of the Philistines went out to the pass of Michmash.

The front of one was located northward opposite Michmash, and the other southward opposite Geba.

And they struck down the Philistines that day from Michmash to Aijalon: and the people were very faint.

The children also of Benjamin from Geba dwelt at Michmash, and Aija, and Beth-el, and in their villages,

He has come to Aiath, he has passed to Migron; at Michmash he has stored his supplies: