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

⁸ And he removed from thence unto a mountain on the east of Bethel, and pitched his tent, having Bethel on the west, and Hai on the east: and there he builded an altar unto the LORD, and called upon the name of the LORD.

¹⁹ And he called the name of that place Bethel: but the name of that city was called Luz at the first.

⁹ Joshua therefore sent them forth: and they went to lie in ambush, and abode between Bethel and Ai, on the west side of Ai: but Joshua lodged that night among the people.

¹³ And the border went over from thence toward Luz, to the side of Luz, which is Bethel, southward; and the border descended to Atarothadar, near the hill that lieth on the south side of the nether Bethhoron.

²⁴ And Chepharhaammonai, and Ophni, and Gaba; twelve cities with their villages:

¹¹ And 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;

³⁰ The men of Ramah and Gaba, six hundred twenty and one.

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

³² The men of Bethel and Ai, an hundred twenty and three.

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

²³ And the garrison of the Philistines went out to the passage of Michmash.