²⁸ He hath come in against Aiath, He hath passed over into Migron, At Michmash he looketh after his vessels.

² And Saul is abiding at the extremity of Gibeah, under the pomegranate which `is' in Migron, and the people who `are' with him, about six hundred men,

² and Saul chooseth for himself three thousand `men' out of Israel; and two thousand are with Saul in Michmash, and in the hill-country of Beth-El; and a thousand have been with Jonathan in Gibeah of Benjamin; and the remnant of the people he hath sent each to his tents.

⁵ And the Philistines have been gathered to fight with Israel; thirty thousand chariots, and six thousand horsemen, and a people as the sand which `is' on the sea-shore for multitude; and they come up and encamp in Michmash, east of Beth-Aven.

² And Joshua sendeth men from Jericho to Ai, which `is' near Beth-Aven, on the east of Bethel, and speaketh unto them, saying, `Go up and spy the land;' and the men go up and spy Ai,

²¹ and they turn and go, and put the infants, and the cattle, and the baggage, before them.

⁵ The one edge `is' fixed on the north over-against Michmash, and the one on the south over-against Gibeah.

³¹ And they smite on that day among the Philistines from Michmash to Aijalon, and the people are very weary,

²² And David letteth down the goods from off him on the hand of a keeper of the goods, and runneth into the rank, and cometh and asketh of his brethren of welfare.

³¹ And sons of Benjamin `are' at Geba, Michmash, and Aija, and Beth-El, and its small towns,