1 Samuel 13:2

New King James Version

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

Cross References

2 Samuel 20:1

And there happened to be there a rebel, whose name was Sheba the son of Bichri, a Benjamite. And he blew a trumpet, and said: “We have no share in David, Nor do we have inheritance in the son of Jesse; Every man to his tents, O Israel!”

2 Samuel 21:6

let seven men of his descendants be delivered to us, and we will hang them before the Lord in Gibeah of Saul, whom the Lord chose.” And the king said, “I will give them.”

2 Samuel 23:29

Heleb the son of Baanah (the Netophathite), Ittai the son of Ribai from Gibeah of the children of Benjamin,

Ezra 2:27

the men of Michmas, one hundred and twenty-two;

Nehemiah 11:31

Also the children of Benjamin from Geba dwelt in Michmash, Aija, and Bethel, and their villages;

Joshua 18:28

Zelah, Eleph, Jebus (which is Jerusalem), Gibeath, and Kirjath: fourteen cities with their villages. This was the inheritance of the children of Benjamin according to their families.

Joshua 22:6

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

Judges 19:12

But his master said to him, “We will not turn aside here into a city of foreigners, who are not of the children of Israel; we will go on to Gibeah.”

1 Samuel 10:26

And Saul also went home to Gibeah; and valiant men went with him, whose hearts God had touched.

1 Samuel 10:5

After that you shall come to the hill of God where the Philistine garrison is. And it will happen, when you have come there to the city, that you will meet a group of prophets coming down from the high place with a stringed instrument, a tambourine, a flute, and a harp before them; and they will be prophesying.

1 Samuel 13:1

Saul reigned one year; and when he had reigned two years over Israel,

1 Samuel 13:11

And Samuel said, “What have you done?” Saul said, “When I saw that the people were scattered from me, and that you did not come within the days appointed, and that the Philistines gathered together at Michmash,

1 Samuel 13:15

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

1 Samuel 13:16

Saul, Jonathan his son, and the people present with them remained in Gibeah of Benjamin. But the Philistines encamped in Michmash.

1 Samuel 13:23

And the garrison of the Philistines went out to the pass of Michmash.

1 Samuel 13:5

Then the Philistines gathered together to fight with Israel, thirty thousand chariots and six thousand horsemen, and people as the sand which is on the seashore in multitude. And they came up and encamped in Michmash, to the east of Beth Aven.

1 Samuel 14:31

Now they had driven back the Philistines that day from Michmash to Aijalon. So the people were very faint.

1 Samuel 14:5

The front of one faced northward opposite Michmash, and the other southward opposite Gibeah.

1 Samuel 14:52

Now there was fierce war with the Philistines all the days of Saul. And when Saul saw any strong man or any valiant man, he took him for himself.

1 Samuel 15:34

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

1 Samuel 24:3

So he came to the sheepfolds by the road, where there was a cave; and Saul went in to attend to his needs. (David and his men were staying in the recesses 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 behavior of the king who will reign over you: He will take your sons and appoint them for his own chariots and to be his horsemen, and some will run before his chariots.