And Joshua sent men to Ai, which is by Beth Aven, saying, Spy out Ai. And the men went up and spied out Ai.

And the children of Benjamin [dwelt] from Gibeah [to] Michmash.

And Saul sat on the top of the hill under the pomegranate tree that is in Migron, and there were with him about six hundred men.

And Saul chose for himself three thousand men of the men of Israel. And there were with Saul two thousand who were in Michmash, and in Mount Bethel, and a thousand were with Jonathan in Gibeah of Benjamin. And he sent the rest of the people [away,] every man to his tent.

And the Philistines gathered together to war with Israel; and they came up against Israel with thirty thousand chariots, six thousand horsemen, and people as the sand by the seashore in multitude. And they came up, and encamped in Michmash, opposite Beth Aven southward.

The one way was northward to one coming to Michmash, and the other way was southward to one coming to Gibeah.

And on that day he struck some of the Philistines in Michmash; and the people were very weary.