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1Sa 13:5. The Phillistines’ great host.
The Philistines gathered themselves together to fight with Israel, thirty thousand chariots, and six thousand horsemen - Either this number must include chariots of every kind - or the word “chariots” must mean the men fighting in them (2Sa 10:18; 1Ki 20:21; 1Ch 19:18); or, as some eminent critics maintain, Sheloshim (“thirty”), has crept into the text, instead of Shelosh (“three”). The gathering of the chariots and horsemen must be understood to be on the Philistine plain, before they ascended the western passes and pitched in the heart of the Benjamite hills, in “Michmash,” (now Mukmas), a “steep precipitous valley” [Robinson], eastward from Beth-aven (Beth-el).