Treasury of Scripture
he is come. This is a prophetical description of the march of Sennacherib's army approaching Jerusalem in order to invest it, and of the terror and confusion spreading and increasing through the several places as he advanced; expressed with great brevity, but finely diversified. Aiath, or Ai, was situated a little east of Bethel about twelve miles north of Jerusalem; Michmash about three miles nearer, where there was a narrow pass between two sharp hills; Geba and Ramah about three miles more to the south; Gibeah a mile and a half more southward; Anathoth within three miles of Jerusalem; to the westward of which, towards Lydda, was Nob, from which place Sennacherib might have a prospect of Zion, and near which, it would appear, his army was destroyed.
Aiath
Joshua 7:2 And Joshua sent men from Jericho to Ai, which is beside Bethaven, on the east of Bethel, and spoke to them, saying...
Nehemiah 11:31 The children also of Benjamin from Geba dwelled at Michmash, and Aija, and Bethel, and in their villages.
Migron
1 Samuel 14:2 And Saul tarried in the uttermost part of Gibeah under a pomegranate tree which is in Migron...
Michmash
1 Samuel 18:2,5 And Saul took him that day, and would let him go no more home to his father's house...
1 Samuel 14:5,31 The forefront of the one was situate northward over against Michmash, and the other southward over against Gibeah...