THEOSIS1 Kingdoms (1 Samuel) 13:23Meaning & Commentary from the Church Fathers
And the army of the Philistines went out in order to advance further in Machmas.
וַיֵּצֵא֙ מַצַּ֣ב פְּלִשְׁתִּ֔ים אֶֽל־מַעֲבַ֖ר מִכְמָֽשׂ׃
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- Isa 10:28He shall come into Aiath, he shall pass into Magron: at Machmas he shall lay up his carriages.
- 1 Sam 14:1Now it came to pass one day that Jonathan, the son of Saul, said to the young man that bore his armour: Come, and let us go over to the garrison of the Philistines, which is on the other side of yonder place. But he told not this to his father.
- 1 Sam 14:4Now there were between the ascents, by which Jonathan sought to go over to the garrison of the Philistines, rocks standing up on both sides, and steep cliffs like teeth on the one side, and on the other, the name of the one was Boses, and the name of the other was Sene:
- 1 Sam 14:5One rock stood out toward the north, over against Machmas, and the other to the south, over against Gabaa.
- 1 Sam 13:5The Philistines also were assembled to fight against Israel, thirty thousand chariots, and six thousand horsemen, and a multitude of people besides, like the sand on the seashore for number. And going up they camped in Machmas, at the east of Bethaven.
- 1 Sam 13:2And Saul chose him three thousand men of Israel: and two thousand were with Saul in Machmas, and in mount Bethel: and a thousand with Jonathan in Gabaa of Benjamin: and the rest of the people he sent back every man to their dwellings.
- 1 Sam 13:3And Jonathan smote the garrison of the Philistines which was in Gabaa. And when the Philistines had heard of it, Saul sounded the trumpet over all the land, saying: Let the Hebrews hear.
- 2 Sam 23:14And David was then in a hold: and there was a garrison of the Philistines then in Bethlehem.