1 Samuel 22:6 meaning and explanation
Soon Saul learned that David and his men had been discovered. At that time Saul was in Gibeah, sitting under the tamarisk tree on the hill at Gibeah, with his spear in hand and all his servants standing around him.
1 Samuel 22:6, Berean Standard Bible
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Saul is at Gibeah, his own town and the seat of his royal power, and the narrator shows him seated under a tamarisk tree with his spear in his hand and his servants standing around him. The picture is meant to be telling: the king is surrounded by attendants, yet he grips a weapon while he speaks about David.
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