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Michmash

Michmash, a town in Benjamin where Saul camped (<ref="1Sa.13.2">1Sa.13.2, 5, 11, 16, 23</ref>) and near which Jonathan defeated a Philistine garrison (<ref="1Sa.14.5, 31">1Sa.14.5, 31</ref>).

Named in 11 verses across 4 books of the Bible.

Every verse

1 Samuel 13:2Saul chose him three thousand men of Israel; whereof 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.

1 Samuel 13:5And 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 pitched in Michmash, eastward from Bethaven.

1 Samuel 13:11And Samuel said, What hast thou done? And Saul said, Because I saw that the people were scattered from me, and that thou camest not within the days appointed, and that the Philistines gathered themselves together at Michmash;

1 Samuel 13:16And Saul, and Jonathan his son, and the people that were present with them, abode in Gibeah of Benjamin: but the Philistines encamped in Michmash.

1 Samuel 13:23And the garrison of the Philistines went out to the passage of Michmash.

1 Samuel 14:5The forefront of the one was situate northward over against Michmash, and the other southward over against Gibeah.

1 Samuel 14:31And they smote the Philistines that day from Michmash to Aijalon: and the people were very faint.

Ezra 2:27The men of Michmas, an hundred twenty and two.

Isaiah 10:28He is come to Aiath, he is passed to Migron; at Michmash he hath laid up his carriages:

Nehemiah 7:31The men of Michmas, an hundred and twenty and two.

Nehemiah 11:31The children also of Benjamin from Geba dwelt at Michmash, and Aija, and Bethel, and in their villages,

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