Michmash

Town · today Mukhmas

Location likely Mukhmas: about 11 km (7 miles, 60 furlongs) north of Jerusalem

Where Scholars Place It

• Mukhmas Likely
• Khirbet el Hara el Fawqa Possible

Michmash in the Bible Dictionary

Named in 11 Verses

• 1 Samuel 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 sent every man to his tent.
• 1 Samuel 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 up, and pitched in Michmash, eastward from Bethaven.
• 1 Samuel 13:11 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;
• 1 Samuel 13:16 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.
• 1 Samuel 13:23 And the garrison of the Philistines went out to the passage of Michmash.
• 1 Samuel 14:5 The forefront of the one was situate northward over against Michmash, and the other southward over against Gibeah.
• 1 Samuel 14:31 And they smote the Philistines that day from Michmash to Aijalon: and the people were very faint.
• Ezra 2:27 The men of Michmas, an hundred twenty and two.
• Nehemiah 7:31 The men of Michmas, an hundred and twenty and two.
• Nehemiah 11:31 The children also of Benjamin from Geba dwelt at Michmash, and Aija, and Bethel, and in their villages,
• Isaiah 10:28 He is come to Aiath, he is passed to Migron; at Michmash he hath laid up his carriages:

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