1 Samuel 13:5

Modern English Version

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.

Cross References

Genesis 22:17

I will indeed bless you and I will indeed multiply your descendants as the stars of the heavens and as the sand that is on the seashore. Your descendants will possess the gate of their enemies.

2 Samuel 17:11

“Therefore my advice is for all of Israel, from Dan to Beer-sheba, to be completely gathered to you like the multitude of the sand along the shoreline and for you to go to battle in person.

1 Kings 20:27

The Israelites were assembled and were all present, and they went against them, and the Israelites camped in front of them like two little flocks of kids, while the Arameans filled the country.

2 Chronicles 1:9

Now, Lord God, may Your word to David my father be confirmed, for You have made me king over a people numerous as the dust of the earth.

Isaiah 10:28

He has come against Aiath, he has passed through Migron; at Mikmash he has laid up his carriages.

Isaiah 48:19

Your descendants also would have been as the sand and your offspring like grains of sand; their name would not have been cut off nor destroyed from before Me.

Jeremiah 15:8

Their widows will increase before Me more than the sand of the seas; I will bring against them, against the mother of a young man, a destroyer at noonday; I will suddenly bring down on her sorrow and terrors.

Hosea 10:5

The inhabitants of Samaria fear because of the calf of Beth-aven. For its people mourn for it, and its priests shriek for it, because its glory has departed from it.

Hosea 4:15

Though you play the whore, O Israel, do not let Judah offend. Do not come to Gilgal, or go up to Beth-aven, and do not swear, “As the Lord lives.”

Hosea 5:8

Blow the horn in Gibeah, and the trumpet in Ramah. Cry aloud at Beth-aven, “Look behind you, O Benjamin!”

Romans 9:27

Isaiah also cries out concerning Israel: “Though the number of the Israelites be like the sand of the sea, a remnant shall be saved.

Joshua 11:4

So these kings went out with all their armies, people as numerous as grains of sand on the seashore, with a large number of horses and chariots.

Joshua 18:12

Their northern border goes from the Jordan up the northern slope of Jericho. It runs westward into the hill country and extends to the wilderness of Beth-aven.

Joshua 7:2

Joshua sent men from Jericho to Ai (which is near Beth-aven, east of Bethel) and said to them, “Go up and spy on the land.” So the men went up and spied on Ai.

Judges 7:12

Now the Midianites, Amalekites, and the Kedemites covered the valley like locusts; and their camels could not be counted, for they were as numerous as grains of sand on the seashore.

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 13:2

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.

1 Samuel 14:23

So the Lord saved Israel that day, and the battle passed beyond Beth-aven.

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 17:1

Now the Philistines gathered their armies for battle, and were gathered at Sokoh, which belongs to Judah. And they camped between Sokoh and Azekah in Ephes Dammim.

1 Samuel 7:13

So the Philistines were subdued, and they did not again come into the territory of Israel. And the hand of the Lord was against the Philistines all the days of Samuel.