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Michmash
Town or city mentioned in 11 verses of the Bible, most often in 1 Samuel.
Where it appears
1 Samuel (7), Nehemiah (2), Ezra (1), Isaiah (1)
Key verses
- 1 Samuel 13:2 first mention — Saul chose him three thousand men of Israel; whereof two thousand were with Saul in Michmash and in mount Beth-el, and a thousand were with Jonathan in Gibeah of Benjamin: and the rest of the people he sent every man to his tent.
- 1 Samuel 13:5 — And the Philistines gathered themselves together to fight with Israel, thirty thousand chariots, and six thousand horsemen, and people as the sand which is on the sea shore in multitude: and they came up, and pitched in Michmash, eastward from Beth-aven.
- 1 Samuel 13:11 — And Samuel said, What hast thou done? And Saul said, Because I saw that the people were scattered from me, and that thou camest not within the days appointed, and that the Philistines gathered themselves together at Michmash;
- 1 Samuel 13:16 — And Saul, and Jonathan his son, and the people that were present with them, abode in Gibeah of Benjamin: but the Philistines encamped in Michmash.
- 1 Samuel 13:23 — And the garrison of the Philistines went out to the passage of Michmash.
- 1 Samuel 14:5 — The forefront of the one was situate northward over against Michmash, and the other southward over against Gibeah.
- 1 Samuel 14:31 — And they smote the Philistines that day from Michmash to Aijalon: and the people were very faint.
- Ezra 2:27 — The men of Michmas, an hundred twenty and two.
- Nehemiah 7:31 — The men of Michmas, an hundred and twenty and two.
- Nehemiah 11:31 — The children also of Benjamin from Geba dwelt at Michmash, and Aija, and Beth-el, and in their villages,
- Isaiah 10:28 — He is come to Aiath, he is passed to Migron; at Michmash he hath laid up his carriages:
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