²⁸ He is come to Aiath, he is passed through Migron; at Michmash he lays up his baggage;

² Saul abode in the uttermost part of Gibeah under the pomegranate tree which is in Migron: and the people who were with him were about six hundred men;

² Saul chose him three thousand men of Israel, of which two thousand were with Saul in Michmash and in the Mount of Bethel, and one thousand were with Jonathan in Gibeah of Benjamin: and the rest of the people he sent every man to his tent.

⁵ The Philistines assembled 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 encamped in Michmash, eastward of Beth Aven.

² Joshua sent men from Jericho to Ai, which is beside Beth Aven, on the east side of Bethel, and spoke to them, saying, Go up and spy out the land. The men went up and spied out Ai.

²¹ So they turned and departed, and put the little ones and the cattle and the goods before them.

⁵ The one crag rose up on the north in front of Michmash, and the other on the south in front of Geba.

³¹ They struck of the Philistines that day from Michmash to Aijalon. The people were very faint;

²² David left his baggage in the hand of the keeper of the baggage, and ran to the army, and came and greeted his brothers.

³¹ The children of Benjamin also [lived] from Geba [onward], at Michmash and Aija, and at Bethel and the towns of it,