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According to the Hebrew Bible, it belonged to the Tribe of Benjamin. [1] It was the setting of the biblical Battle of Michmash, recounted in 1 Samuel 14. Michmas was inhabited during the Second Temple period, when, according to the Mishnah, its fine wheat was brought to the Temple. [2]
The full strength of the Philistine armies at Michmash has been debated. According to Josephus [ 2 ] and the Hebrew text of 1 Samuel 13:5, the Philistines dispatched a force of 30,000 chariots, 6,000 horsemen, and a large number of infantry (specified as 300,000 by Josephus) against King Saul's army, but it is believed that the Philistines ...
Michmash [2] Mukhmas [ a ] ( Arabic : مُخماس ) is a Palestinian village in the Jerusalem Governorate , located northeast of Jerusalem , in the center of the West Bank . According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics , the town had a population of 1,363 in 2017.
The Hebrew word for "pomegranate" is "rimmon", here is meant for the tree as it is an appellative noun, not the "Rock of Rimmon" (Judges 20:45, 47; probably because the form resembles the fruit), which was located on the north-east of Michmash. [21] [22]
A rural Jewish priest from Modein, Mattathias (Hebrew: Matityahu) of the Hasmonean family, sparked the revolt against the Seleucid Empire by refusing to worship the Greek gods at Modein's new altar. Mattathias killed a Jew who had stepped forward to take Mattathias' place in sacrificing to an idol as well as the Greek officer who was sent to ...
Ma'ale Mikhmas (Hebrew: מַעֲלֵה מִכְמָשׂ) is an Israeli settlement in the Binyamin region of the northern West Bank.Located a few miles northeast of Jerusalem, it falls under the municipal jurisdiction of Mateh Binyamin Regional Council and according to Palestinians the Ramallah and al-Bireh Governorate.
A Michigan doctor and his wife are accused of locking their 10-year-old son with special needs in a closet for hours a day over several months, at times forcing him to clean his own feces.. It's ...
In the Cambridge Bible it is conjectured that when Saul occupied Michmash the Philistines moved their post at Gibeah (1 Samuel 10:5) to Geba, to more closely monitor Saul's movement, so Jonathan seized Gibeah, from where he attacked Geba (1 Samuel 13:3), [27] a victory that was given credit to Saul as well.