1***stylusExodus 12:5, Micah 6:6, Exodus 12:5, Micah 6:62And Saul took for himself three thousand men of Israel, of whom he kept two thousand with him in Michmash and in the mountain of Beth-el, and a thousand were with Jonathan in Gibeah in the land of Benjamin: the rest of the people he sent back to their tents.stylus1 Samuel 10:26, 1 Samuel 10:26, 1 Samuel 14:31, 1 Samuel 13:5, 1 Samuel 14:313And Jonathan made an attack on the armed force of the Philistines stationed at Gibeah; and news was given to the Philistines that the Hebrews were turned against them. And Saul had a horn sounded through all the land,stylus1 Samuel 10:5, 1 Samuel 10:5, Judges 3:27, Judges 3:27, Judges 6:344And all Israel had the news that Saul had made an attack on the Philistines, and that Israel was bitterly hated by the Philistines. And the people came together after Saul to Gilgal.stylusGenesis 34:30, Genesis 34:30, Exodus 5:21, Exodus 5:21, Genesis 46:345And the Philistines came together to make war on Israel, three thousand war-carriages and six thousand horsemen and an army of people like the sands of the sea in number: they came up and took up their position in Michmash, to the east of Beth-aven.stylusJoshua 11:4, 1 Samuel 14:23, Joshua 11:4, 1 Samuel 14:23, Joshua 18:126When the men of Israel saw the danger they were in, (for the people were troubled,) they took cover in cracks in the hillsides and in the woods and in rocks and holes and hollows.stylusJudges 6:2, Judges 6:2, Hebrews 11:38, Hebrews 11:38, Exodus 14:107And a great number of the people had gone over Jordan to the land of Gad and Gilead; but Saul was still in Gilgal, and all the people went after him shaking in fear.stylusDeuteronomy 3:12, Deuteronomy 20:8, Leviticus 26:17, Numbers 32:33, Numbers 32:428And he went on waiting there for seven days, the time fixed by Samuel: but Samuel did not come to Gilgal; and the people were starting to go away from him.stylus1 Samuel 10:8, 1 Samuel 10:89Then Saul said, Come here and give me the burned offering and the peace-offerings. And he made a burned offering to the Lord.stylus1 Kings 3:4, 1 Kings 3:4, Deuteronomy 12:6, Deuteronomy 12:6, Proverbs 15:810And when the burned offering was ended, Samuel came; and Saul went out to see him and to give him a blessing.stylus1 Samuel 15:13, 1 Samuel 15:13, Psalms 129:8, Ruth 2:4, Psalms 129:811And Samuel said, What have you done? And Saul said, Because I saw that the people were going away from me, and you had not come at the time which had been fixed, and the Philistines had come together at Michmash;stylus1 Samuel 13:16, 1 Samuel 13:5, 1 Samuel 13:23, 1 Samuel 13:2, 1 Samuel 13:1612I said, Now the Philistines will come down on me at Gilgal, and I have made no prayer for help to the Lord: and so, forcing myself to do it, I made a burned offering.stylusPsalms 66:3, 2 Corinthians 9:7, 1 Kings 12:26, 1 Kings 12:27, Amos 8:513And Samuel said to Saul, You have done a foolish thing: you have not kept the rules which the Lord your God gave you; it was the purpose of the Lord to make your authority over Israel safe for ever.stylus1 Samuel 15:22, 1 Samuel 15:22, 2 Chronicles 16:9, 2 Chronicles 16:9, 1 Samuel 15:2814But now, your authority will not go on: the Lord, searching for a man who is pleasing to him in every way, has given him the place of ruler over his people, because you have not done what the Lord gave you orders to do.stylusActs 13:22, Acts 13:22, 1 Samuel 15:28, 1 Samuel 15:28, Psalms 89:1915Then Samuel went up from Gilgal and the rest of the people went up after Saul against the men of war, and they came from Gilgal to Gibeah in the land of Benjamin: and Saul took the number of the people who were with him, about six hundred men.stylus1 Samuel 14:2, 1 Samuel 13:2, 1 Samuel 14:2, 1 Samuel 13:2, 1 Samuel 13:616And Saul, with Jonathan his son and the people who were with them, was waiting in Geba in the land of Benjamin: but the tents of the Philistines were in Michmash.stylus1 Samuel 13:3, 1 Samuel 13:317And three bands of men came out from the Philistines to make an attack; one band went by the road which goes to Ophrah, into the land of Shual:stylusJoshua 18:23, Joshua 18:23, 1 Samuel 14:15, 1 Samuel 14:15, Joshua 19:318And another went in the direction of Beth-horon: and another went by the hill looking down on the valley of Zeboiim, in the direction of the waste land.stylusNehemiah 11:34, Nehemiah 11:34, Joshua 18:13, Joshua 18:14, Joshua 18:1319Now there was no iron-worker in all the land of Israel: for the Philistines said, For fear the Hebrews make themselves swords or spears:stylus2 Kings 24:14, 2 Kings 24:14, Judges 5:8, Jeremiah 24:1, Judges 5:820But all the Israelites had to go to the Philistines to get their ploughs and blades and axes and hooks made sharp;stylus21For they had instruments for putting an edge on their ploughs and blades and forks and axes, and for putting iron points on their ox-driving rods.stylus22So on the day of the fight at Michmash, not a sword or a spear was to be seen in the hands of any of the people with Saul and Jonathan: only Saul and his son Jonathan had them.stylusJudges 5:8, Judges 5:8, 1 Samuel 17:47, Zechariah 4:6, 1 Samuel 17:5023And the armed force of the Philistines went out to the narrow way of Michmash.stylusIsaiah 10:28, Isaiah 10:28, 1 Samuel 14:1, 1 Samuel 14:4, 1 Samuel 14:5