1 Samuel 13:2 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

² Saul chose three thousand men of Israel; two thousand were with Saul in Michmash and the hill country of Bethel, and a thousand were with Jonathan in Gibe-ah of Benjamin; the rest of the people he sent home, every man to his tent.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

² Saul chose him three thousand men of Israel; whereof two thousand were with Saul in Michmash and in mount Beth-el, and a thousand were with Jonathan in Gibeah of Benjamin: and the rest of the people he sent every man to his tent.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

² Saul chose 3,000 men of Israel; 2,000 were with [him] in Michmash and the hill country of Bethel, and 1,000 with Jonathan in Gibeah of Benjamin. The rest of the men he sent away, each one to his home.

American Standard Version (1901)

² Saul chose him three thousand men of Israel, whereof two thousand were with Saul in Michmash and in the mount of Beth-el, and a thousand were with Jonathan in Gibeah of Benjamin: and the rest of the people he sent every man to his tent.

Common English Bible

² Saul selected three thousand men from Israel. Two thousand of those were with Saul at Michmash in the hills near Bethel, and one thousand were with Jonathan at Gibeah in Benjamin. He sent the remaining men home.

Catholic Public Domain Version

² And Saul chose for himself three thousand men of Israel. And two thousand were with Saul at Michmash and at mount Bethel. Then one thousand were with Jonathan at Gibeah of Benjamin. But the remainder of the people, he sent back, each one to his own tent.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

² And Saul chose him three thousand men of Israel. And two thousand were with Saul in Machmas, and in mount Bethel: and a thousand with Jonathan in Gabaa of Benjamin. And the rest of the people he sent back every man to their dwellings.

1 Samuel 13:2 Cross References

2 Samuel 20:1

Now there happened to be there a worthless fellow, whose name was Sheba, the son of Bichri, a Benjaminite; and he blew the trumpet, and said, “We have no portion in David, and we have no inheritance in the son of Jesse; every man to his tents, O Israel!”

2 Samuel 21:6

let seven of his sons be given to us, so that we may hang them up before the Lord at Gibeon on the mountain of the Lord.” And the king said, “I will give them.”

2 Samuel 23:29

Heleb the son of Baanah of Netophah, Ittai the son of Ribai of Gibe-ah of the Benjaminites,

Ezra 2:27

The men of Michmas, one hundred and twenty-two.

Nehemiah 11:31

The people of Benjamin also lived from Geba onward, at Michmash, Aija, Bethel and its villages,

Joshua 18:28

Zela, Ha-eleph, Jebus (that is, Jerusalem), Gibe-ah and Kiriath-jearim —fourteen cities with their villages. This is the inheritance of the tribe of Benjamin according to its families.

Joshua 22:6

So Joshua blessed them, and sent them away; and they went to their homes.

Judges 19:12

And his master said to him, “We will not turn aside into the city of foreigners, who do not belong to the people of Israel; but we will pass on to Gibe-ah.”

1 Samuel 10:26

Saul also went to his home at Gibe-ah, and with him went men of valor whose hearts God had touched.

1 Samuel 10:5

After that you shall come to Gibeath-elohim, where there is a garrison of the Philistines; and there, as you come to the city, you will meet a band of prophets coming down from the high place with harp, tambourine, flute, and lyre before them, prophesying.

1 Samuel 13:1

Saul was … years old when he began to reign; and he reigned … and two years over Israel.

1 Samuel 13:11

Samuel said, “What have you done?” And Saul said, “When I saw that the people were scattering from me, and that you did not come within the days appointed, and that the Philistines had mustered at Michmash,

1 Samuel 13:15

And Samuel arose, and went up from Gilgal to Gibe-ah of Benjamin. And Saul numbered the people who were present with him, about six hundred men.

1 Samuel 13:16

And Saul, and Jonathan his son, and the people who were present with them, stayed in Geba of Benjamin; but the Philistines encamped in Michmash.

1 Samuel 13:23

And the garrison of the Philistines went out to the pass of Michmash.

1 Samuel 13:5

And the Philistines mustered to fight with Israel, thirty thousand chariots, and six thousand horsemen, and troops like the sand on the seashore in multitude; they came up and encamped in Michmash, to the east of Beth-aven.

1 Samuel 14:31

They struck down the Philistines that day from Michmash to Aijalon. And the people were very faint;

1 Samuel 14:5

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

1 Samuel 14:52

There was hard fighting against the Philistines all the days of Saul; and when Saul saw any strong man, or any valiant man, he attached him to himself.

1 Samuel 15:34

Then Samuel went to Ramah; and Saul went up to his house in Gibe-ah of Saul.

1 Samuel 24:3

And he came to the sheepfolds by the way, where there was a cave; and Saul went in to relieve himself. Now David and his men were sitting in the innermost parts of the cave.

1 Samuel 26:2

So Saul arose and went down to the wilderness of Ziph, with three thousand chosen men of Israel, to seek David in the wilderness of Ziph.

1 Samuel 8:11

He said, “These will be the ways of the king who will reign over you: he will take your sons and appoint them to his chariots and to be his horsemen, and to run before his chariots;