² Saul was staying in the outskirts of Gibeah in the pomegranate cave^[a] at ^(A)Migron. The people who were with him were about ^(B)six hundred men,

² Saul chose three thousand men of Israel. Two thousand were with Saul in ^(A)Michmash and the hill country of Bethel, and a thousand were with Jonathan in ^(B)Gibeah of Benjamin. The rest of the people he sent home, every man to his tent.

⁵ And the Philistines mustered to fight with Israel, thirty thousand chariots and six thousand horsemen and troops ^(A)like the sand on the seashore in multitude. They came up and encamped in Michmash, to the east of ^(B)Beth-aven.

³¹ The people of Benjamin also lived from Geba onward, at Michmash, Aija, Bethel and its villages,

²² And David left the ^(A)things in charge of the keeper of the ^(B)baggage and ran to the ranks and went and greeted his brothers.

³¹ They struck down the Philistines that day from ^(A)Michmash to ^(B)Aijalon. And the people were very ^(C)faint.

⁵ The one crag rose on the north in front of Michmash, and the other on the south in front of ^(A)Geba.

²¹ So they turned and departed, putting the little ones and the livestock and ^(A)the goods in front of them.

² Joshua sent men from Jericho to Ai, which is near ^(A)Beth-aven, east of Bethel, and said to them, “Go up and spy out the land.” And the men went up and spied out Ai.