³¹ The people of Benjamin also lived from Geba onward, at Michmash, Aija, Bethel and its villages,

³⁰ The men of Ramah and Geba, 621. ³¹ The men of Michmas, 122. ³² The men of Bethel and Ai, 123.

¹¹ Samuel said, “What have you done?” And Saul said, “When I saw that the people were scattering from me, and that you did not come within the days appointed, and that the Philistines had mustered at Michmash,

²⁴ Chephar-ammoni, Ophni, Geba—twelve cities with their villages:

¹³ From there the boundary passes along southward in the direction of Luz, to the shoulder of ^(A)Luz (that is, Bethel), then the boundary goes down to ^(B)Ataroth-addar, on the mountain that lies south of Lower ^(C)Beth-horon.

⁹ So Joshua sent them out. And they went to the place of ambush and lay between Bethel and Ai, to the west of Ai, but Joshua spent that night among the people.

¹⁹ He called the name of that place ^(A)Bethel,^[a] but the name of the city was Luz at the first.

⁸ From there he moved to the hill country on the east of ^(A)Bethel and pitched his tent, with Bethel on the west and Ai on the east. And there he built an altar to the Lord and called upon the name of the Lord.

²³ And ^(A)the garrison of the Philistines went out to the ^(B)pass of ^(C)Michmash.