The Philistines assembled themselves together to fight with Israel, thirty thousand chariots, and six thousand horsemen, and people as the sand which is on the sea-shore in multitude: and they came up, and encamped in Michmash, eastward of Beth Aven.
a Curtius, l. 4. c. 9. b Antiqu, l. 6. c. 6. sect. 1.