Now Saul chose for himself 3,000 men of Israel, of which 2,000 were with Saul in Michmash and in the hill country of Bethel, while 1,000 were with Jonathan at Gibeah of Benjamin. But he sent away the rest of the people, each to his tent.

Now the Philistines assembled to fight with Israel, 30,000 chariots and 6,000 horsemen, and people like the sand which is on the seashore in abundance; and they came up and camped in Michmash, east of Beth-aven.

But Samuel said, “What have you done?” And Saul said, “Because I saw that the people were scattering from me, and that you did not come within the appointed days, and that the Philistines were assembling at Michmash,

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

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

The one crag rose on the north opposite Michmash, and the other on the south opposite Geba.

They struck among the Philistines that day from Michmash to Aijalon. And the people were very weary.

The sons of Benjamin also lived from Geba onward, at Michmash and Aija, at Bethel and its towns,

He has come against Aiath,
He has passed through Migron;
At Michmash he deposited his baggage.