28He is come to Aiath, he is passed to Migron; at Michmash he hath laid up his carriages:
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And Saul tarried in the uttermost part of Gibeah under a pomegranate tree which is in Migron: and the people that were with him were about six hundred men;
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.
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.
And David left his carriage in the hand of the keeper of the carriage, and ran into the army, and came and saluted his brethren.
The children also of Benjamin from Geba dwelt at Michmash, and Aija, and Bethel, and in their villages,
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 24-34)The prophet, in his preaching, distinguishes between the precious and the vile; for God in his providence, even in the same providence, does so. He speaks terror, in Sennacherib’s invasion, to the hypocrites, who were the people of God’s wrath , Isa. 10:6. But here he speaks comfort to the sincere, who were the people of God’s love. The judgment was sent for the sake of the former; the deliverance…
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