1 Samuel 13:2

New Century Version

Saul chose three thousand men from Israel. Two thousand men stayed with him at Micmash in the mountains of Bethel, and one thousand men stayed with Jonathan at Gibeah in Benjamin. Saul sent the other men in the army back home.

Cross References

2 Samuel 20:1

It happened that a troublemaker named Sheba son of Bicri from the tribe of Benjamin was there. He blew the trumpet and said: “We have no share in David! We have no part in the son of Jesse! People of Israel, let’s go home!”

2 Samuel 21:6

So bring seven of his sons to us. Then we will kill them and hang them on stakes in the presence of the Lord at Gibeah, the hometown of Saul, the Lord’s chosen king.” The king said, “I will give them to you.”

2 Samuel 23:29

Heled son of Baanah the Netophathite; Ithai son of Ribai from Gibeah in Benjamin;

Ezra 2:27

of Micmash—122;

Nehemiah 11:31

The descendants of the Benjaminites from Geba lived in Micmash, Aija, Bethel and its surroundings,

Joshua 18:28

Zelah, Haeleph, the Jebusite city (Jerusalem), Gibeah, and Kiriath. There were fourteen towns and their villages. All these areas are the lands the family groups of Benjamin were given.

Joshua 22:6

Then Joshua said good-bye to them, and they left and went away to their homes.

Judges 19:12

But his master said, “No. We won’t go inside a foreign city. Those people are not Israelites. We will go on to the city of Gibeah.”

1 Samuel 10:26

Saul also went to his home in Gibeah. God touched the hearts of certain brave men who went along with him.

1 Samuel 10:5

Then you will go to Gibeah of God, where a Philistine camp is. When you approach this town, a group of prophets will come down from the place of worship. They will be playing harps, tambourines, flutes, and lyres, and they will be prophesying.

1 Samuel 13:1

Saul was thirty years old when he became king, and he was king over Israel forty-two years.

1 Samuel 13:11

Samuel asked, “What have you done?” Saul answered, “I saw the soldiers leaving me, and you were not here when you said you would be. The Philistines were gathering at Micmash.

1 Samuel 13:15

Then Samuel left Gilgal and went to Gibeah in Benjamin. Saul counted the men who were still with him, and there were about six hundred.

1 Samuel 13:16

Saul and his son Jonathan and the soldiers with him stayed in Gibeah in the land of Benjamin. The Philistines made their camp at Micmash.

1 Samuel 13:23

A group from the Philistine army had gone out to the pass at Micmash.

1 Samuel 13:5

The Philistines gathered to fight Israel with three thousand chariots and six thousand men to ride in them. Their soldiers were as many as the grains of sand on the seashore. The Philistines went and camped at Micmash, which is east of Beth Aven.

1 Samuel 14:31

That day the Israelites defeated the Philistines from Micmash to Aijalon. After that, they were very tired.

1 Samuel 14:5

One cliff faced north toward Micmash. The other faced south toward Geba.

1 Samuel 14:52

All Saul’s life he fought hard against the Philistines. When he saw strong or brave men, he took them into his army.

1 Samuel 15:34

Then Samuel left and went to Ramah, but Saul went up to his home in Gibeah.

1 Samuel 24:3

Saul came to the sheep pens beside the road. A cave was there, and he went in to relieve himself. Now David and his men were hiding far back in the cave.

1 Samuel 26:2

So Saul went down to the Desert of Ziph with three thousand chosen men of Israel to look for David there.

1 Samuel 8:11

Samuel said, “If you have a king ruling over you, this is what he will do: He will take your sons and make them serve with his chariots and his horses, and they will run in front of the king’s chariot.