1 Samuel 14:2

Jonathan Defeats the Philistines

1 Now it happened one day that Jonathan the son of Saul said to the young man who¹ bore his armor, “Come, let us go over to the Philistines’ garrison that is on the other side.” But he did not tell his father.

2 And Saul was sitting in the outskirts of ^aGibeah under a pomegranate tree which is in Migron. The people who were with him were about six hundred men.

3 ^aAhijah the son of Ahitub, ^bIchabod’s brother, the son of Phinehas, the son of Eli, the Lord’s priest in Shiloh, was ^cwearing an ephod. But the people did not know that Jonathan had gone.

4 Between the passes, by which Jonathan sought to go over ^ato the Philistines’ garrison, there was a sharp rock on one side and a sharp rock on the other side. And the name of one was Bozez, and the name of the other Seneh.

Commentaries:

Adam Clarke

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Under a pomegranate tree - Under Rimmon, which not only signifies a pomegranate tree, but also a strong rock, in which six hundred Benjamites took shelter, Judges 20:45. Probably it was in this very rock that Saul and his six hundred men now lay hidden.

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