¶He has come against Aiath, He has passed through Migron; At Michmash he deposited his baggage.
Parallel translations
- WEB He has come to Aiath. He has passed through Migron. At Michmash he stores his baggage.
- KJV He is come to Aiath, he is passed to Migron; at Michmash he hath laid up his carriages:
- BSB Assyria has entered Aiath and passed through Migron, storing their supplies at Michmash.
- NKJV He has come to Aiath, He has passed Migron; At Michmash he has attended to his equipment.
- NLT Look, the Assyrians are now at Aiath. They are passing through Migron and are storing their equipment at Micmash.
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Isaiah traces the Assyrian army's approaching march toward Jerusalem town by town. The threat is vividly near and real.
Overview
Beginning a dramatic march route, the prophet names Aiath and Migron and notes the army storing baggage at Michmash — geography that heightens the sense of an advancing menace. The poetic itinerary makes God's warning concrete for Judah. Yet the passage builds toward the Lord's sudden intervention in verses 33-34.
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- 1 Sam 14:2Saul stayed in the uttermost part of Gibeah under the pomegranate tree which is in Migron: and the people who were with him were about six hundred men;
- 1 Sam 13:2Saul 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.
- 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.
- Judg 18:21So they turned and departed, and put the little ones, the livestock, and the goods before them.
- Neh 11:31The children of Benjamin also lived from Geba onward, at Michmash and Aija, and at Bethel and its towns,
- Josh 7:2Joshua sent men from Jericho to Ai, which is beside Beth Aven, on the east side of Bethel, and spoke to them, saying, “Go up and spy out the land.” The men went up and spied out Ai.
- 1 Sam 14:5The one crag rose up on the north in front of Michmash, and the other on the south in front of Geba.
- 1 Sam 14:31They struck the Philistines that day from Michmash to Aijalon. The people were very faint;
- 1 Sam 17:22David left his baggage in the hand of the keeper of the baggage, and ran to the army, and came and greeted his brothers.
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