1. 1 Samuel 14:2 (ESV)
  2. Exposition

What is significant about the fact that Saul was staying in a pomegranate cave?

1 Samuel 14:2 (ESV)

2 Saul was staying in the outskirts of Gibeah in the pomegranate cave at Migron. The people who were with him were about six hundred men,

The pomegranate cave is also translated as the pomegranate tree. The mention of Saul sitting under a tree could be an indication that he was continuing his normal duties as king (see 1 Samuel 22:6; Judges 4:5),1 an allusion to his role as leader.2 Instead of making plans to fight the Philistines, he is waiting for an oracle from God.3