The LORD God asked the woman, "Why did you do this?" She replied, "The snake tricked me into eating it."

Then the LORD said, "Why have you done this terrible thing? Your brother's blood is crying out to me from the ground, like a voice calling for revenge.

Joshua said to him, "My son, tell the truth here before the LORD, the God of Israel, and confess. Tell me now what you have done. Don't try to hide it from me."

So Joab went to the king and said to him, "What have you done? Abner came to you---why did you let him go like that?

He went back into the house, and Elisha asked him, "Where have you been?" "Oh, nowhere, sir," he answered.

Saul picked three thousand men, keeping two thousand of them with him in Michmash and in the hill country of Bethel and sending one thousand with his son Jonathan to Gibeah, in the territory of the tribe of Benjamin. The rest of the men Saul sent home.

The Philistines assembled to fight the Israelites; they had thirty thousand war chariots, six thousand cavalry troops, and as many soldiers as there are grains of sand on the seashore. They went to Michmash, east of Bethaven, and camped there.

Saul, his son Jonathan, and their men camped in Geba in the territory of Benjamin; the Philistine camp was at Michmash.

The Philistines sent a group of soldiers to defend Michmash Pass.

One was on the north side of the pass, facing Michmash, and the other was on the south side, facing Geba.

The enemy army has captured the city of Ai! They have passed through Migron! They left their supplies at Michmash!