And the garrison of the Philistines went out to the gorge of Michmash.
Parallel translations
- WEB The garrison of the Philistines went out to the pass of Michmash.
- KJV And the garrison of the Philistines went out to the passage of Michmash.
- BSB And a garrison of the Philistines had gone out to the pass at Michmash.
- NKJV And the garrison of the Philistines went out to the pass of Michmash.
- NLT The pass at Micmash had meanwhile been secured by a contingent of the Philistine army.
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Quick answer
A Philistine garrison advances to the pass of Michmash, the very spot where Jonathan's bold act of faith will soon unfold.
Overview
This brief notice marks the position of the Philistine outpost and serves as the hinge into the next chapter's events. The pass of Michmash becomes the arena where God demonstrates that victory belongs to him. The verse closes the chapter's grim survey of Israel's weakness and opens the account of unexpected deliverance.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 6
- Isa 10:28He has come to Aiath. He has passed through Migron. At Michmash he stores his baggage.
- 1 Sam 14:4–5Between the passes, by which Jonathan sought to go over to the Philistines’ garrison, there was a rocky crag on the one side, and a rocky crag on the other side: and the name of the one was Bozez, and the name of the other Seneh.
- 1 Sam 14:1Now it fell on a day, that Jonathan the son of Saul said to the young man who bore his armor, “Come, and let us go over to the Philistines’ garrison, that is on the other side.” But he didn’t tell his father.
- 1 Sam 13:2–3Saul chose for himself three thousand men of Israel, of which two thousand were with Saul in Michmash and in the Mount of Bethel, and one thousand were with Jonathan in Gibeah of Benjamin. He sent the rest of the people to their own tents.
- 2 Sam 23:14David was then in the stronghold; and the garrison of the Philistines was then in Bethlehem.
- 1 Sam 13:5The Philistines assembled themselves together to fight with Israel, thirty thousand chariots, and six thousand horsemen, and people as the sand which is on the seashore in multitude. They came up and encamped in Michmash, eastward of Beth Aven.
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The rise of the anointed king after Israel's failed first choice points to the true Anointed One (Messiah means 'anointed'), the shepherd-king after God's own heart from Bethlehem.
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