1 Samuel 13:23
And the garrison of the Philistines went out to the passage of Michmash.
1 Samuel 13:23 in other translations
| BSB | And a garrison of the Philistines had gone out to the pass at Michmash. |
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| WEB | The garrison of the Philistines went out to the pass of Michmash. |
| ASV | And the garrison of the Philistines went out unto the pass of Michmash. |
| YLT | And the station of the Philistines goeth out unto the passage of Michmash. |
| DARBY | And a garrison of the Philistines went out to the passage of Michmash. |
| BBE | And the armed force of the Philistines went out to the narrow way of Michmash. |
| Webster | And the garrison of the Philistines went out to the passage of Michmash. |
What does 1 Samuel 13:23 mean?
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on 1 Samuel 13:15-23
See how politic the Philistines were when they had power; they not only prevented the people of Israel from making weapons of war, but obliged them to depend upon their enemies, even for instruments of husbandry. How impolitic Saul was, who did not, in the beginning of his reign, set himself to redress this. Want of true sense always accompanies want of grace. Sins which appear to us very little, have dangerous…
1 Samuel 13:23 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for 1 Samuel 13:23
- Isaiah 10:28
He is come to Aiath, he is passed to Migron; at Michmash he hath laid up his carriages:
- 1 Samuel 14:4-5
And between the passages, by which Jonathan sought to go over unto the Philistines’ garrison, there was a sharp rock on the one side, and a sharp rock on the other side: and the name of the one was Bozez, and the name of the other Seneh. The forefront of the one was situate northward over against Michmash, and the other southward over against Gibeah.
- 1 Samuel 14:1
Now it came to pass upon a day, that Jonathan the son of Saul said unto the young man that bare his armour, Come, and let us go over to the Philistines’ garrison, that is on the other side. But he told not his father.
- 1 Samuel 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 Beth–aven.
- 1 Samuel 13:2-3
Saul chose him three thousand men of Israel; whereof two thousand were with Saul in Michmash and in mount Beth–el, and a thousand were with Jonathan in Gibeah of Benjamin: and the rest of the people he sent every man to his tent. And Jonathan smote the garrison of the Philistines that was in Geba, and the Philistines heard of it. And Saul blew the trumpet throughout all the land, saying, Let the Hebrews hear.
- 2 Samuel 23:14
And David was then in an hold, and the garrison of the Philistines was then in Beth–lehem.
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Context
- 1 Samuel 13:22
So it came to pass in the day of battle, that there was neither sword nor spear found in the hand of any of the people that were with Saul and Jonathan: but with Saul and with Jonathan his son was there found.
- 1 Samuel 13:23
And the garrison of the Philistines went out to the passage of Michmash.
1 Samuel 13:23 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Y la guarnición de los Filisteos salió al paso de Michmas. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Et le poste des Philistins sortit pour occuper le passage de Micmash. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Und eine Aufstellung der Philister zog aus nach dem Passe von Mikmas. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Egressa est autem statio Philisthiim, ut transcenderet in Machmas. |