KJV King James Version
The forefront of the one [was] situate northward over against Michmash, and the other southward over against Gibeah.
VERSE STUDY • KJV
1 Samuel 14:5
The forefront of the one [was] situate northward over against Michmash, and the other southward over against Gibeah.
Read it in 5 translations
BSB Berean Standard Bible
One cliff stood to the north toward Michmash, and the other to the south toward Geba.
WEB World English Bible
The one crag rose up on the north in front of Michmash, and the other on the south in front of Geba.
ASV American Standard Version
The one crag rose up on the north in front of Michmash, and the other on the south in front of Geba.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
The one edge is fixed on the north over-against Michmash, and the one on the south over-against Gibeah.
Surrounding context — 1 Samuel 14
2 And Saul tarried in the uttermost part of Gibeah under a pomegranate tree which [is] in Migron: and the people that [were] with him [were] about six hundred men;
3 And Ahiah, the son of Ahitub, Ichabod’s brother, the son of Phinehas, the son of Eli, the LORD’S priest in Shiloh, wearing an ephod. And the people knew not that Jonathan was gone.
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.
5 The forefront of the one [was] situate northward over against Michmash, and the other southward over against Gibeah.
6 And Jonathan said to the young man that bare his armour, Come, and let us go over unto the garrison of these uncircumcised: it may be that the LORD will work for us: for [there is] no restraint to the LORD to save by many or by few.
7 And his armourbearer said unto him, Do all that [is] in thine heart: turn thee; behold, I [am] with thee according to thy heart.
8 Then said Jonathan, Behold, we will pass over unto [these] men, and we will discover ourselves unto them.
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