King James Version
1 Samuel 13:23 in the King James Version says “And the garrison of the Philistines went out to the passage of Michmash. garrison: or, standing camp” — study this verse from 1 Samuel chapter 13 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“And the garrison of the Philistines went out to the passage of Michmash. garrison: or, standing camp”
1 Samuel 13:23 · KJV
Yet they had a file for the mattocks, and for the coulters, and for the forks , and for the axes, and to sharpen the goads. a file: Heb. a file with mouths sharpen: Heb. to set
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.
And the garrison of the Philistines went out to the passage of Michmash. garrison: or, standing camp
KJV Study — Public Domain
“went out”
H3318to go (causatively, bring) out, in a great variety of applications, literally and figuratively, direct and proxim
“to the passage”
H4569a crossing-place (of a river, a ford; of a mountain, a pass); abstractly, a transit, i.e., (figuratively) overwhelming
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