1 Samuel 13:2

The English Standar Version

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

Cross References

2 Samuel 20:1

Now there happened to be there a worthless man, whose name was Sheba, the son of Bichri, a Benjaminite. And he blew the trumpet and said, "We have no portion in David, and we have no inheritance in the son of Jesse; every man to his tents, O Israel!"

2 Samuel 21:6

let seven of his sons be given to us, so that we may hang them before the LORD at Gibeah of Saul, the chosen of the LORD." And the king said, "I will give them."

2 Samuel 23:29

Heleb the son of Baanah of Netophah, Ittai the son of Ribai of Gibeah of the people of Benjamin,

Ezra 2:27

The men of Michmas, 122.

Nehemiah 11:31

The people of Benjamin also lived from Geba onward, at Michmash, Aija, Bethel and its villages,

Joshua 18:28

Zela, Haeleph, Jebus[3] (that is, Jerusalem), Gibeah[4] and Kiriath-jearim[5] -- fourteen cities with their villages. This is the inheritance of the people of Benjamin according to its clans.

Joshua 22:6

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

Judges 19:12

And his master said to him, "We will not turn aside into the city of foreigners, who do not belong to the people of Israel, but we will pass on to Gibeah."

1 Samuel 10:26

Saul also went to his home at Gibeah, and with him went men of valor whose hearts God had touched.

1 Samuel 10:5

After that you shall come to Gibeath-elohim,[2] where there is a garrison of the Philistines. And there, as soon as you come to the city, you will meet a group of prophets coming down from the high place with harp, tambourine, flute, and lyre before them, prophesying.

1 Samuel 13:1

Saul was . . .[1] years old when he began to reign, and he reigned . . . and two[2] years over Israel.

1 Samuel 13:11

Samuel said, "What have you done?" And Saul said, "When I saw that the people were scattering from me, and that you did not come within the days appointed, and that the Philistines had mustered at Michmash,

1 Samuel 13:15

And Samuel arose and went up from Gilgal. The rest of the people went up after Saul to meet the army; they went up from Gilgal[3] to Gibeah of Benjamin. And Saul numbered the people who were present with him, about six hundred men.

1 Samuel 13:16

And Saul and Jonathan his son and the people who were present with them stayed in Geba 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

And the Philistines mustered to fight with Israel, thirty thousand chariots and six thousand horsemen and troops like the sand on the seashore in multitude. They came up and encamped in Michmash, to the east of Beth-aven.

1 Samuel 14:31

They struck down the Philistines that day from Michmash to Aijalon. And the people were very faint.

1 Samuel 14:5

The one crag rose on the north in front of Michmash, and the other on the south in front of Geba.

1 Samuel 14:52

There was hard fighting against the Philistines all the days of Saul. And when Saul saw any strong man, or any valiant man, he attached him to himself.

1 Samuel 15:34

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

1 Samuel 24:3

And he came to the sheepfolds by the way, where there was a cave, and Saul went in to relieve himself.[2] Now David and his men were sitting in the innermost parts of the cave.

1 Samuel 26:2

So Saul arose and went down to the wilderness of Ziph with three thousand chosen men of Israel to seek David in the wilderness of Ziph.

1 Samuel 8:11

He said, "These will be the ways of the king who will reign over you: he will take your sons and appoint them to his chariots and to be his horsemen and to run before his chariots.