1 Samuel 13:2

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

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.

Cross References

2 Samuel 20:1

THERE HAPPENED to be there a base and contemptible fellow named Sheba son of Bichri, a Benjamite. He blew a trumpet and said, We have no portion in David and no inheritance in the son of Jesse! Every man to his tents, O Israel!

2 Samuel 21:6

Let seven men of his sons be delivered to us and we will hang them up before the Lord at Gibeah of Saul, [on the mountain] of the Lord. And the king said, I will give them.

2 Samuel 23:29

Heleb son of Baanah of Netophah, Ittai son of Ribai of Gibeah of the Benjamites.

Ezra 2:27

The men of Michmas, 122.

Nehemiah 11:31

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

Joshua 18:28

Zelah, Haeleph, the Jebusite [city]–that is, Jerusalem–Gibeah, and Kiriath-[jearim]; fourteen cities with their villages. This is the inheritance of the tribe of Benjamin according to their families.

Joshua 22:6

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

Judges 19:12

His master said to him, We will not turn aside into the city of foreigners where there are no Israelites. We will go on to Gibeah.

1 Samuel 10:26

Saul also went home to Gibeah; and there went with him a band of valiant men whose hearts God had touched.

1 Samuel 10:5

After that you will come to the hill of God, where the garrison of the Philistines is; and when you come to the city, you will meet a company of prophets coming down from the high place with harp, tambourine, flute, and lyre before them, prophesying.

1 Samuel 13:1

SAUL WAS [forty] years old when he began to reign; and when he had reigned two years over Israel,

1 Samuel 13:11

Samuel said, What have you done? Saul said, Because I saw that the people were scattering from me, and that you did not come within the days appointed, and that the Philistines were assembled at Michmash,

1 Samuel 13:15

And Samuel went up from Gilgal to Gibeah of Benjamin. And Saul numbered the people that were left with him, [only] about 600.

1 Samuel 13:16

Saul and Jonathan his son and the people with them remained in Gibeah of Benjamin, but the Philistines encamped at 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 gathered to fight with Israel, 30,000 chariots and 6,000 horsemen and troops like sand on the seashore in multitude. They came up and encamped at Michmash, east of Beth-aven.

1 Samuel 14:31

They smote 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 severe war against the Philistines all the days of Saul, and whenever Saul saw any mighty or [outstandingly] courageous man, he attached him to himself.

1 Samuel 15:34

Then Samuel went to Ramah, but Saul went up to his house in Gibeah of Saul.

1 Samuel 24:3

He came to the sheepfolds on the way, where there was a cave, and Saul went in to relieve himself. Now David and his men were sitting in the cave's innermost recesses.

1 Samuel 26:2

So Saul arose and went down to the Wilderness of Ziph, with 3,000 chosen men of Israel, to seek David [there].

1 Samuel 8:11

And he said, These will be the ways of the king who shall 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.