Saul was staying on the outskirts of Gibeah under a pomegranate tree in Migron (14:2). Migron is to be associated with the Wadi Swenit, which ran between Micmash to the north and Geba to the south. The word “tree” is not present in the Hebrew text, and Arnold has proposed the attractive theory that the “pomegranate” refers to a large cave in the south wall of the wadi (the Migron). The cave’s pitted interior gives it the resemblance of an open pomegranate and may have earned it the name Rimmon (Heb.
1 Samuel 14:1–6