Place · Benjamin · modern Mukhmas, West Bank
Michmash
Michmash is a town in the territory of Benjamin, noted for its strategic military significance in the battles between Saul and the Philistines.
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Where Michmash appears
3 passages across 1 book.
Passages set in Michmash
- 1Sam 13:2 — Saul chose him three thousand men of Israel; whereof two thousand were with Saul in Michmash and in mount Bethel, and a thousand were with Jonathan in Gibeah of Benjamin: and the rest of the people he
- 1Sam 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
- 1Sam 14:5 — The forefront of the one was situate northward over against Michmash, and the other southward over against Gibeah.