He has come to Aiath; he has passed through Migron; at Michmash he stores his baggage;
Saul was staying in the outskirts of Gibeah in the pomegranate cave at Migron. The people who were with him were about six hundred men,
Saul chose three thousand men of Israel. Two thousand were with Saul in Michmash and the hill country of Bethel, and a thousand were with Jonathan in Gibeah of Benjamin. The rest of the people he sent home, every man to his tent.
And the Philistines mustered to fight with Israel, thirty thousand chariots and six thousand horsemen and troops like the sand on the seashore in multitude. They came up and encamped in Michmash, to the east of Beth-aven.
The people of Benjamin also lived from Geba onward, at Michmash, Aija, Bethel and its villages,
And David left the things in charge of the keeper of the baggage and ran to the ranks and went and greeted his brothers.
They struck down the Philistines that day from Michmash to Aijalon. And the people were very faint.
The one crag rose on the north in front of Michmash, and the other on the south in front of Geba.
So they turned and departed, putting the little ones and the livestock and the goods in front of them.
Joshua sent men from Jericho to Ai, which is near Beth-aven, east of Bethel, and said to them, “Go up and spy out the land.” And the men went up and spied out Ai.
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