Verse 16
POSITION, MOVEMENTS, AND CONDITION OF THE TWO ARMIES, 1 Samuel 13:16-23.
16. Gibeah of Benjamin Rather, Geba, according to the margin, for this also was a city of Benjamin. Joshua 18:24; Joshua 21:17. Many interpreters have, like our translators, confounded this place with Gibeah; but it was some three miles distant. See on 1 Samuel 13:3. It is quite likely that after he had smitten the Philistine garrison Jonathan held this place, and did not withdraw to Gilgal with his father; and after Saul’s unsuccessful attempt to muster the people at Gilgal, that monarch, with the six hundred that did not desert him, went up to reinforce Jonathan at Geba. The Philistine army lay encamped upon the heights of Michmash, in full view of Saul and Jonathan, and separated by a deep valley between.
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