Isaiah 10:29
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They have crossed at the ford: “We will spend the night at Geba.” Ramah trembles; Gibeah of Saul flees.
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Then he would return to Ramah because his home was there, and there he judged Israel and built an altar to the LORD.
And a garrison of the Philistines had gone out to the pass at Michmash.
This is what the LORD says: “A voice is heard in Ramah, mourning and great weeping, Rachel weeping for her children, and refusing to be comforted, because they are no more.”
And from the tribe of Benjamin they gave them Gibeon, Geba,
When the messengers came to Gibeah of Saul and relayed these words in the hearing of the people, they all wept aloud.
Since the days of Gibeah you have sinned, O Israel, and there you have remained. Did not the battle in Gibeah overtake the sons of iniquity?
They have deeply corrupted themselves as in the days of Gibeah; He will remember their guilt; He will punish their sins.
Now the rest of the acts of Asa, along with all his might, all his accomplishments, and the cities he built, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah? In his old age, however, he became diseased in his feet.
Now Saul and Jonathan his son and the troops with them were staying in Geba of Benjamin, while the Philistines camped at Michmash.
He chose for himself three thousand men of Israel: Two thousand were with Saul at Michmash and in the hill country of Bethel, and a thousand were with Jonathan in Gibeah of Benjamin. And the rest of the troops he sent away, each to his own home.