1 Samuel 13:23
Good News Translation
The Philistines sent a group of soldiers to defend Michmash Pass.

New Revised Standard Version
Now a garrison of the Philistines had gone out to the pass of Michmash.

Contemporary English Version
The Philistines moved their camp to the pass at Michmash,

New American Bible
An outpost of the Philistines had pushed forward to the pass of Michmash.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And the army of the Philistines went out in order to advance further in Machmas.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And the army of the Philistines went out in order to advance further in Machmas.

garrison.

1 Samuel 13:3 And Jonathan smote the garrison of the Philistines which was in Gabaa. And when the Philistines had heard of it, Saul sounded the trumpet over all the land, saying: Let the Hebrews hear.

1 Samuel 14:4 Now there were between the ascents, by which Jonathan sought to go over to the garrison of the Philistines, rocks standing up on both sides, and steep cliffs like teeth on the one side, and on the other, the name of the one was Boses, and the name of the other was Sene:

passage

1 Samuel 13:2,5 And Saul chose him three thousand men of Israel: and two thousand were with Saul in Machmas, and in mount Bethel: and a thousand with Jonathan in Gabaa of Benjamin: and the rest of the people he sent back every man to their dwellings. . . .

1 Samuel 14:1,4,5 Now it came to pass one day that Jonathan, the son of Saul, said to the young man that bore his armour: Come, and let us go over to the garrison of the Philistines, which is on the other side of yonder place. But he told not this to his father. . . .

Isaiah 10:28 He shall come into Aiath, he shall pass into Magron: at Machmas he shall lay up his carriages.

Context
Israel Without Weapons
22And when the day of battle was come, there was neither sword nor spear found in the hand of any of the people that were with Saul and Jonathan, except Saul and Jonathan his son. 23And the army of the Philistines went out in order to advance further in Machmas.
Cross References
1 Samuel 14:1
Now it came to pass one day that Jonathan, the son of Saul, said to the young man that bore his armour: Come, and let us go over to the garrison of the Philistines, which is on the other side of yonder place. But he told not this to his father.

1 Samuel 14:4
Now there were between the ascents, by which Jonathan sought to go over to the garrison of the Philistines, rocks standing up on both sides, and steep cliffs like teeth on the one side, and on the other, the name of the one was Boses, and the name of the other was Sene:

1 Samuel 14:5
One rock stood out toward the north, over against Machmas, and the other to the south, over against Gabaa.

2 Samuel 23:14
And David was then in a hold: and there was a garrison of the Philistines then in Bethlehem.

Isaiah 10:28
He shall come into Aiath, he shall pass into Magron: at Machmas he shall lay up his carriages.

Isaiah 10:29
They have passed in haste, Gaba is our lodging: Rama was astonished, Gabaath of Saul fled away.

1 Samuel 13:22
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