then Saul chose for himself three thousand from Israel. Two thousand of these were with Saul in Michmash and in mount Bethel, and a thousand were with Jonathan in Gibeah of Benjamin. And of the rest of the people he sent each man to his tent.

And the Philistines gathered to fight with Israel, thirty thousand chariots, and six thousand horsemen, and people like the sand on the seashore in multitude. And they came up and pitched in Michmash, eastward from Beth-aven.

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

And Saul, and his son Jonathan, and the people present with them, stayed in Gibeah of Benjamin. But the Philistines camped in Michmash.

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

The one crag was a pillar on the north in front of Michmash, and the other southward in front of Gibeah.

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

And the sons of Benjamin from Geba lived at Michmash, and Aija, and Bethel, and their villages,

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