² Saul was staying under the pomegranate tree in Migron^(A) on the outskirts of Gibeah.^[a](B) The troops with him numbered about 600.^{(C) 3} Ahijah,^(D) who was wearing an ephod,^(E) was also there. He was the son of Ahitub, the brother of Ichabod^(F) son of Phinehas, son of Eli the Lord’s priest at Shiloh.^(G) But the troops did not know that Jonathan had left.

⁴ There were sharp columns^[b] of rock on both sides of the pass^(H) that Jonathan intended to cross to reach the Philistine garrison. One was named Bozez and the other Seneh;