Verse Lens · Concise explanation
1 Samuel 14:2 Explained in Context
Use this verse as a doorway into the larger passage—not as an isolated saying.
Verse 2. 2And 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;
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Quick Meaning
Holds Saul under a pomegranate tree with about six hundred people.
Read It With
- 1 Samuel 14:1–14:3
Verse 14:2 belongs to “Jonathan slips away while Saul waits.” It holds Saul under a pomegranate tree with about six hundred people; detached from the full unit, that contribution can be mistaken for the unit's whole claim.
Why This Verse Appears Here
Here the narrator holds Saul under a pomegranate tree with about six hundred people, moving 1 Samuel 14:1–14:3 through the sequence summarized this way: Jonathan leaves secretly with his armor-bearer while Saul remains with six hundred and the Eli-house priest Ahiah wears the ephod.
What Remains True
Holds Saul under a pomegranate tree with about six hundred people. Within 1 Samuel 14:1–14:3, this contribution supports the unit's enduring claim: Leadership and loyalty remain answerable for the effects traced here: Jonathan leaves secretly with his armor-bearer while Saul remains with six hundred and the Eli-house priest Ahiah wears the ephod. Jonathan's secrecy does not make unauthorized risk a universal model, and Saul's waiting does not by itself diagnose cowardice or incompetence.
How It Can Shape Life
- Holds Saul under a pomegranate tree with about six hundred people. The proportionate response is therefore the one traced from the complete unit: Evaluate leadership by truthful action, accountability, and its effects on people with less power—not by status, charisma, religious language, or apparent success. Jonathan's secrecy does not make unauthorized risk a universal model, and Saul's waiting does not by itself diagnose cowardice or incompetence.
Continue in Context
The full thought-unit study remains the final contextual authority for this Verse Lens.
Read 1 Samuel 14:1–14:3 — Jonathan slips away while Saul waitsSources used for this Verse Lens
How certain is this explanation? strong
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Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
eBible.org and CrossWire Bible Society
USFM archive eng-kjv2006_usfm.zip; source files dated 2026-08-19; downloaded 2026-08-24; archive SHA-256 aec1b3b26c622fd3d963d2bbac963016b9513246ffbfa20da00bb100372ea007; normalized corpus SHA-256 09aef51d90488aa7b9722b3fd9a93f4b25f6bf2064c5fd798fb39673c300ddf2.
Supports: Exact displayed KJV words, verse order, paragraph metadata, supplied-word markup, and complete unit coverage.
Exact location: 1 Samuel 14:1–14:3, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM-derived repository corpus
Open source ↗hebrew text and morphology
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible: 1 Samuel
Open Scriptures
Open Scriptures, release 2.2
Supports: Masoretic Hebrew wording and morphology, with the two KJV-Hebrew versification shifts stated rather than silently offset.
Exact location: Open Scriptures MorphHB v2.2, commit 6a5db284c715c18b239422e57bb89684e6a19f00, wlc/1Sam.xml, OSIS 14:1–14:3; KJV 20:42 spans Hebrew 20:42–21:1, KJV 21:1–15 maps to Hebrew 21:2–16, KJV 23:29 maps to Hebrew 24:1, and KJV 24:1–22 maps to Hebrew 24:2–23
Open source ↗translation and translator notes
NET Bible First Edition Notes: 1 Samuel
Biblical Studies Press
Biblical Studies Press, 2006
Supports: Only the translator notes actually printed for these verses, used for lexical, grammatical, textual, historical, and older-English controls.
Exact location: NET Bible First Edition Notes, 1 Samuel PDF, printed pp. 504–543, exact tc/tn/sn entries attached to 14:1–14:3
Open source ↗