31The children also of Benjamin from Geba dwelt at Michmash, and Aija, and Bethel, and in their villages,
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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;
And Chepharhaammonai, and Ophni, and Gaba; twelve cities with their villages:
He is come to Aiath, he is passed to Migron; at Michmash he hath laid up his carriages:
And he removed from thence unto a mountain on the east of Bethel, and pitched his tent, having Bethel on the west, and Hai on the east: and there he builded an altar unto the LORD, and called upon the name of the LORD.
Joshua therefore sent them forth: and they went to lie in ambush, and abode between Bethel and Ai, on the west side of Ai: but Joshua lodged that night among the people.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 20-36)Having given an account of the principal persons that dwelt in Jerusalem (a larger account of whom he had before, 1 Chron. 9:2-34), Nehemiah, in these verses, gives us some account of the other cities, in which dwelt the residue of Israel , Neh. 11:20. It was requisite that Jerusalem should be replenished, yet not so as to drain the country. The king himself is served of the field , which will do…
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