1 Samuel 14:5 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁵ One crag rose on the north in front of Michmash and the other on the south in front of Geba.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁵ The forefront of the one was situate northward over against Michmash, and the other southward over against Gibeah.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

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

American Standard Version (1901)

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

Common English Bible

⁵ One outcropping was on the north side, in front of Michmash, and the other was on the south side, in front of Geba.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁵ One boulder projected toward the north, opposite Michmash, and the other toward the south, opposite Gibeah.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁵ One rock stood out towards the north over against Machmas; and the other to the south over against Gabaa.

1 Samuel 14:5 Cross References

1 Chronicles 3:6

then Ibhar, Elishama, Eliphelet,

Isaiah 10:28

he has come to Aiath; he has passed through Migron; at Michmash he stores his baggage;

Isaiah 10:29

they have crossed over the pass; at Geba they lodge for the night; Ramah trembles; Gibeah of Saul has fled.

1 Samuel 13:11

Samuel said, “What have you done?” Saul replied, “When I saw that the people were slipping away from me and that you did not come within the days appointed and that the Philistines were mustering at Michmash,

1 Samuel 13:2

Saul chose three thousand out 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 to their tents.

1 Samuel 13:23

Now a garrison of the Philistines had gone out to the pass of Michmash.

1 Samuel 13:3

Jonathan defeated the garrison of the Philistines that was at Geba, and the Philistines heard of it. And Saul blew the trumpet throughout all the land, saying, “Let the Hebrews hear!”

1 Samuel 14:31

After they had struck down the Philistines that day from Michmash to Aijalon, the troops were very faint,

1 Samuel 14:4

In the pass by which Jonathan tried to go over to the Philistine garrison there was a rocky crag on one side and a rocky crag on the other; the name of the one was Bozez, and the name of the other was Seneh.

1 Samuel 14:6

Jonathan said to the young man who carried his armor, “Come, let us go over to the garrison of these uncircumcised; it may be that the Lord will act for us, for nothing can hinder the Lord from saving by many or by few.”