he chose him three thousand men out of Israel. Two thousand were with Saul in Michmash and Mount Bethel, and a thousand with Jonathan in Gibeah of Benjamin. And the rest of the people he sent, every man to his own house.

Then the Philistines gathered themselves together to fight with Israel, thirty thousand chariots and six thousand horsemen with other people like the sand by the seaside in multitude and came up and pitched in Michmash eastward from Bethaven.

And Saul said, "Because I saw that the people scattered from me, and yet thou camest not within the days appointed - and that the Philistines gathered themselves together to Michmash -

And Saul and Jonathan his son and the people that were found with them, had their abiding in Gibeah of Benjamin. But the Philistines had pitched in Michmash.

And the Garrison of the Philistines came out and stood on the other side before Michmash.

And the one leaneth northward toward Michmash, and the other southward toward Gibeah.

And they laid on the Philistines that day, from Michmash to Aijalon. And the people were exceeding fainty.

The men of Michmash, a hundred and two and twenty;

The children of Benjamin of Geba, dwelt at Michmash, and Aija, Bethel, and in their villages.

He shall come to Aiath, and go through toward Migron. But at Michmash shall he muster his Host,