6000 Army Assembled Aven Beth Bethaven Beth-aven Beth-a'ven Camped Charioteers Chariots East Eastward Encamp Encamped Fight Gathered Horsemen Michmas Michmash Micmash Multitude Mustered Numerous Philistines Pitched Position Sand Sands Seashore Sea-shore Shore Six Soldiers Themselves Thirty Thousand Troops War War-carriages
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 {e} Bethaven.
(e) Which was also called Beth-el, in the tribe of Benjamin.
13:5 Thirty thousand chariots, and c. - Most of them, we may suppose, carriages for their baggage, not chariots of war, tho' all their allies were joined with them.
13:1-7 Saul reigned one year, and nothing particular happened; but in his second year the events recorded in this chapter took place. For above a year he gave the Philistine time to prepare for war, and to weaken and to disarm the Israelites. When men are lifted up in self-sufficiency, they are often led into folly. The chief advantages of the enemies of the church are derived from the misconduct of its professed friends. When Saul at length sounded an alarm, the people, dissatisfied with his management, or terrified by the power of the enemy, did not come to him, or speedily deserted him.
Abundance Assembled Aven Beth Bethaven Chariots Eastward Encamped Horsemen Israel Michmas Michmash Multitude Philistines Pitched Sand Sea Seashore Sea-Shore Shore Six Themselves Thirty Thousand Together
Abundance Assembled Aven Beth Bethaven Chariots Eastward Encamped Horsemen Israel Michmas Michmash Multitude Philistines Pitched Sand Sea Seashore Sea-Shore Shore Six Themselves Thirty Thousand Together
