1 Samuel 13:2

Modern English Version

Saul chose for himself three thousand men of Israel. Two thousand were with Saul in Mikmash and in mountains of Bethel, and a thousand were with Jonathan in Gibeah of Benjamin. The rest of the people he sent each to his tent.

Cross References

2 Samuel 20:1

There happened to be a worthless man there whose name was Sheba the son of Bichri, a Benjamite. He sounded the trumpet and said, “We have no share in David, nor do we have an inheritance in the son of Jesse; every man to his tents, O Israel.”

2 Samuel 21:6

let seven of his male descendants be handed over to us, and we will hang them before the Lord at Gibeah of Saul, the chosen one of the Lord.” The king said, “I will hand them over.”

2 Samuel 23:29

Heled the son of Baanah the Netophathite, Ithai the son of Ribai from Gibeah of Benjamin,

Ezra 2:27

the men of Mikmash—one hundred and twenty-two;

Nehemiah 11:31

Some of the Benjamites settled from Geba onward, at Mikmash, Aija, and Bethel and their villages,

Joshua 18:28

Zelah, Haeleph, the Jebusite city (that is, Jerusalem), Gibeah, and Kiriath—fourteen cities with their villages. This is the inheritance of the tribe of Benjamin according to their clans.

Joshua 22:6

Joshua blessed them and sent them off, and they went to their tents.

Judges 19:12

His master said to him, “We must not turn aside to a city of foreigners, who are not Israelites. We will continue 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 there to the city, you will meet a group of prophets coming down from the high place with a harp, a tambourine, a flute, and a lyre before them. And they will prophesy.

1 Samuel 13:1

Saul was thirty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned forty-two years over Israel.

1 Samuel 13:11

Samuel said, “What have you done?” And Saul said, “Because I saw that the people were scattered from me, and that you did not come to the appointed assembly days, and the Philistines are gathering themselves together at Mikmash,

1 Samuel 13:15

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

1 Samuel 13:16

Now Saul, and Jonathan his son, and the people that were with them, were staying in Gibeah of Benjamin, but the Philistines encamped in Mikmash.

1 Samuel 13:23

And the garrison of the Philistines had marched out to the ravine of Mikmash.

1 Samuel 13:5

The Philistines gathered together to fight with Israel, thirty thousand chariots and six thousand horsemen, with people like the sand which is on the seashore in multitude. And they came up and camped in Mikmash, east of Beth-aven.

1 Samuel 14:31

And they struck the Philistines that day from Mikmash to Aijalon, and the people were very weary.

1 Samuel 14:5

The crag of the one rose north opposite Mikmash, and the other faced southward opposite Geba.

1 Samuel 14:52

There was strong war against the Philistines all the days of Saul, and when Saul saw any strong man, or any valiant man, he took him into his service.

1 Samuel 15:34

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

1 Samuel 24:3

He came to the sheep pens by the way and a cave was there. And Saul went in to relieve himself. Now David and his men were sitting in the rear of the cave.

1 Samuel 26:2

Then Saul arose and went down to the Wilderness of Ziph, having three thousand chosen men of Israel with him, to seek David in the Wilderness of Ziph.

1 Samuel 8:11

And he said, “This will be the judgment concerning the king who will reign over you: Your sons he will take in order to place them for himself in his chariots and as his horsemen, and they will run before his chariot,