Reference: Michmas

Mich'mas Michmash. Mich'mash

City and mountain pass in the tribe of Benjamin. It was where Jonathan smote the garrison of the Philistines, when the victory might have been greater had not Saul distressed the people by his forbidding them to take food until the evening. Men of this town returned from the exile. 1Sa 13:2-23; 14:5,31; Ezr 2:27; Ne 7:31; 11:31; Isa 10:28. Identified with Mukhmas, 31 53' N, 35 16' E. The Wady is in one place nearly half a mile wide, but elsewhere it is a deep gorge with nearly perpendicular rocks with caverns and fissures. In the winter a deep and rapid torrent rushes through it.