1 Samuel 13:2

New International Version

Saul chose three thousand men from Israel; two thousand were with him at Mikmash and in the hill country of Bethel, and a thousand were with Jonathan at Gibeah in Benjamin. The rest of the men he sent back to their homes.

Cross References

2 Samuel 20:1

Now a troublemaker named Sheba son of Bikri, a Benjamite, happened to be there. He sounded the trumpet and shouted, “We have no share in David, no part in Jesse’s son! Every man to his tent, Israel!”

2 Samuel 21:6

let seven of his male descendants be given to us to be killed and their bodies exposed before the Lord at Gibeah of Saul—the Lord’s chosen one.” So 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 Mikmash 122

Nehemiah 11:31

The descendants of the Benjamites from Geba lived in Mikmash, Aija, Bethel and its settlements,

Joshua 18:28

Zelah, Haeleph, the Jebusite city (that is, Jerusalem), Gibeah and Kiriath—fourteen towns and their villages. This was the inheritance of Benjamin for its clans.

Joshua 22:6

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

Judges 19:12

His master replied, “No. We won’t go into any city whose people are not Israelites. We will go on to Gibeah.”

1 Samuel 10:26

Saul also went to his home in Gibeah, accompanied by valiant men whose hearts God had touched.

1 Samuel 10:5

“After that you will go to Gibeah of God, where there is a Philistine outpost. As you approach the town, you will meet a procession of prophets coming down from the high place with lyres, timbrels, pipes and harps being played before them, and they will be prophesying.

1 Samuel 13:1

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

1 Samuel 13:11

“What have you done?” asked Samuel. Saul replied, “When I saw that the men were scattering, and that you did not come at the set time, and that the Philistines were assembling at Mikmash,

1 Samuel 13:15

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

1 Samuel 13:16

Saul and his son Jonathan and the men with them were staying in Gibeah in Benjamin, while the Philistines camped at Mikmash.

1 Samuel 13:23

Now a detachment of Philistines had gone out to the pass at Mikmash.

1 Samuel 13:5

The Philistines assembled to fight Israel, with three thousand chariots, six thousand charioteers, and soldiers as numerous as the sand on the seashore. They went up and camped at Mikmash, east of Beth Aven.

1 Samuel 14:31

That day, after the Israelites had struck down the Philistines from Mikmash to Aijalon, they were exhausted.

1 Samuel 14:5

One cliff stood to the north toward Mikmash, the other to the south toward Geba.

1 Samuel 14:52

All the days of Saul there was bitter war with the Philistines, and whenever Saul saw a mighty or brave man, he took him into his service.

1 Samuel 15:34

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

1 Samuel 24:3

He came to the sheep pens along the way; a cave was there, and Saul went in to relieve himself. David and his men were far back in the cave.

1 Samuel 26:2

So Saul went down to the Desert of Ziph, with his three thousand select Israelite troops, to search there for David.

1 Samuel 8:11

He said, “This is what the king who will reign over you will claim as his rights: He will take your sons and make them serve with his chariots and horses, and they will run in front of his chariots.