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.

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

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

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

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.

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