And the spoilers came out of the camp of the Philistines in three companies: one company turned unto the way that leadeth to Ophrah, unto the land of Shual:
The spoilers came out of the camp of the Philistines in three companies. Those predatory bands, sallying from Michmash, ravaged through the three valleys which radiate from the uplands of Michmash to Ophrah (now Tayibeh) (see the note at Judges 7:2) on the north, through the rocky pass of Beth-horon on the west, and down the ravines of Zeboim (the hyaenas), eastward toward the Ghor, or Jordan valley, on the east.