Now it came to pass upon a day, that Jonathan the son of Saul said unto the young man that bare his armour, Come, and let us go over to the Philistines' garrison, that is on the other side. But he told not his father.
The Philistines' garrison - margin, the standing camp in "the passage of Michmash" (1 Samuel 13:16; 1 Samuel 13:23), now Wady es-Suweinit. It begins in the neighbourhood of Betin (Beth-el) and el-Bireh (Beeroth), and as it breaks through the ridge below these places its sides form precipitous walls. On the right, about a quarter of an acre below, it again breaks off, and passes between high perpendicular precipices (Robinson's 'Biblical Researches,' 2:, p. 116; Stanley's 'Sinai and Palestine,' p. 201; Porter's 'Handbook of Syria and Palestine,' pp. 214, 215).