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Migron
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible
or MIGRON. One of the places mentioned in Isaiah’s description of the march of the Assyrians on Jerusalem. The direction of the march is from north to south: hence Migron ( Isaiah 10:28 ) lay north of Michmash (wh. see), and north of the Wady es-Suwçnît , which is the ‘pass’ of Isaiah 10:29 . The name perhaps survives in Makrûn , a ruined site situated a mile or two N.W. of Makhmâs (Michmash). In 1 Samuel 14:2 Samaul, whose army was encamped south of the Wady es-Suwçnît , is said to have dwelt in ‘the uttermost part of Geba (so read) under the pomegranate tree which is in Migron.’ Probably ‘in Migron’ should rather be translated ‘in the threshing-floor’; if not, we must infer that there were two places not many miles apart, one north and the other south of the Wady es-Suwçnît , bearing the same name. This southern Migron has not been identified.
G. B. Gray.
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Hastings, James. Entry for 'Migron'. Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/hdb/m/migron.html. 1909.
