And Saul tarried in the uttermost part of Gibeah under a pomegranate tree which is in Migron: and the people that were with him were about six hundred men;
Saul tarried in the uttermost part of Gibeah. His head quarters were removed from Geba to Migron, 'in the extremity or skirts of Gibeah,'-thus at once retreating from the Philistines and drawing near to the high priest, as well as Samuel (1 Samuel 13:15), who was in Gibeah. The exact site of Migron has not been ascertained; but it lay along the road which ran through this passage (Isaiah 10:28), and probably, as Porter suggests, somewhere on the bank of Wady Kirah. There was, therefore, only the breadth of the ravine between the two camps. Saul had encamped, along with Samuel and Ahiah, the high priest on the top of one of the conical or spherical hills which abound in the Benjamite territory, and favourable for an encampment, called Migron (a precipice).
Under a pomegranate tree, х haarimown (H7416), the pomegranate] - some noted tree. But as the pomegranate is of too low a stature for Saul to erect a tent under its shade, many take the word as the name of the town a little northeast of Gibeah and Michmash (Joshua 15:32; Judges 20:45; Judges 1 Chr. 14:32; Zechariah 14:10), now Rummon: 'a village,' says Robinson ('Biblical Researches,' 2:, pp. 113, 132), 'which forms a remarkable object in the landscape, being situated on and around the summit of a conical chalky hill, and visible in all directions.'