Saul reigned one year; and when he had reigned two years over Israel, 1 Exo 12:5Mic 6:6 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. 1Sa 10:261Sa 13:51Sa 14:311Sa 13:231Sa 14:51Sa 14:521Sa 15:341Sa 8:11 And Jonathan smote the garrison of the Philistines that was in Geba, and the Philistines heard of it. And Saul blew the trumpet throughout all the land, saying, Let the Hebrews hear. 2 1Sa 10:5Jdg 3:27Jdg 6:341Sa 13:161Sa 14:1-62Sa 2:282Sa 20:12Sa 23:14 And all Israel heard say that Saul had smitten a garrison of the Philistines, and that Israel also was had in abomination with the Philistines. And the people were called together after Saul to Gilgal. 3 Gen 34:30Exo 5:211Sa 10:81Sa 11:14-15Gen 46:34Jos 5:9Zec 11:8
¶ 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. 1Sa 14:23Jos 11:4Jos 18:122Ch 1:9Gen 22:17Hos 10:5Hos 4:15Hos 5:8 When the men of Israel saw that they were in a strait, (for the people were distressed,) then the people did hide themselves in caves, and in thickets, and in rocks, and in high places, and in pits. Jdg 6:2Heb 11:381Sa 14:111Sa 23:191Sa 24:32Sa 24:14Exo 14:10-12Isa 42:22 And some of the Hebrews went over Jordan to the land of Gad and Gilead. As for Saul, he was yet in Gilgal, and all the people followed him trembling. 4 Deu 20:8Deu 28:25Deu 3:12Hos 11:10-11Jdg 7:3Jos 13:24-31Lev 26:17Lev 26:36-37
¶ And he tarried seven days, according to the set time that Samuel had appointed: but Samuel came not to Gilgal; and the people were scattered from him. 1Sa 10:8 And Saul said, Bring hither a burnt offering to me, and peace offerings. And he offered the burnt offering. 1Ki 3:4Pro 21:27Pro 15:8Pro 21:31Sa 13:12-131Sa 14:181Sa 15:21-222Sa 24:25 And it came to pass, that as soon as he had made an end of offering the burnt offering, behold, Samuel came; and Saul went out to meet him, that he might salute him. 5 1Sa 15:13Psa 129:8Rut 2:4
¶ 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; 1Sa 13:161Sa 13:21Sa 13:231Sa 13:52Ki 5:25Gen 3:13Gen 4:101Sa 14:5 Therefore said I, The Philistines will come down now upon me to Gilgal, and I have not made supplication unto the LORD: I forced myself therefore, and offered a burnt offering. 6 1Ki 12:26-272Co 9:7Amo 8:5Psa 66:31Sa 21:7 And Samuel said to Saul, Thou hast done foolishly: thou hast not kept the commandment of the LORD thy God, which he commanded thee: for now would the LORD have established thy kingdom upon Israel for ever. 1Sa 15:222Ch 16:91Sa 15:281Sa 15:111Ki 18:181Ki 21:202Ch 25:15-16Psa 50:8-15 But now thy kingdom shall not continue: the LORD hath sought him a man after his own heart, and the LORD hath commanded him to be captain over his people, because thou hast not kept that which the LORD commanded thee. Act 13:221Sa 15:28Psa 89:19-37Psa 78:701Sa 16:1Act 7:461Sa 16:121Sa 2:30
And Samuel arose, and gat him up from Gilgal unto Gibeah of Benjamin. And Saul numbered the people that were present with him, about six hundred men. 7 1Sa 13:21Sa 14:21Sa 13:6-7 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. 8 9 1Sa 13:3
¶ And the spoilers came out of the camp of the Philistines in three companies: one company turned unto the way that leadeth to Ophrah, unto the land of Shual: Jos 18:231Sa 14:151Sa 11:11Jos 19:3 And another company turned the way to Beth-horon: and another company turned to the way of the border that looketh to the valley of Zeboim toward the wilderness. Neh 11:34Jos 18:13-14Jos 16:31Ch 6:682Ch 8:5Gen 14:2Hos 11:8Jos 10:11
¶ Now there was no smith found throughout all the land of Israel: for the Philistines said, Lest the Hebrews make them swords or spears: 2Ki 24:14Jdg 5:8Jer 24:1Isa 54:16 But all the Israelites went down to the Philistines, to sharpen every man his share, and his coulter, and his axe, and his mattock. Yet they had a file for the mattocks, and for the coulters, and for the forks, and for the axes, and to sharpen the goads. 10 11 So it came to pass in the day of battle, that there was neither sword nor spear found in the hand of any of the people that were with Saul and Jonathan: but with Saul and with Jonathan his son was there found. Jdg 5:81Co 1:27-291Sa 17:471Sa 17:502Co 4:7Zec 4:6 And the garrison of the Philistines went out to the passage of Michmash. 12 Isa 10:281Sa 14:11Sa 14:4-51Sa 13:2-31Sa 13:52Sa 23:14