Place
Michmash
Identified location. The site is known today and most scholars agree on it.
A village across a steep valley from Geba. Saul camped here, and Jonathan and his armourbearer climbed the rocks of the pass to attack the Philistine garrison.
Who passed through
In story order. King James Version.
- Saul (King), 1 Samuel 13:2
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.
- Jonathan, 1 Samuel 14:4
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.
Place names, references and coordinates: STEPBible TIPNR, Tyndale House Cambridge (CC BY 4.0), with coordinates from OpenBible.info. Map: Natural Earth (public domain).