2 Samuel 4:3
in 2 Samuel 4because the Beerothites fled to Gittaim and have lived there as foreigners to this day.
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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
and the Beerothites fled to Gittaim, and have been sojourners there until this day).
KJV
And the Beerothites fled to Gittaim, and were sojourners there until this day.)
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This verse in 2 Samuel 4
Commentary
5 notes on this verseAnd the Beerothites fled to Gittaim, and were sojourners there until that day. At the death of Saul, when many of the Israelites deserted their cities, and left them to the Philistines, 1Sa 31:7; and so the inhabitants of Beeroth forsook their city, which was near the Philistines, and went to Gittaim, a city in the same tribe, though a little further off, see Neh 11:33.
This site's exposition
were captains of bands
on 2 Samuel 4:2-3
Rechab and Baanah come from Beeroth, one of the four Gibeonite cities Israel had sworn to spare at Joshua 9:17, a town the narrator has to explain still counts as Benjamin's own. Its people have already scattered to Gittaim by the time this book is written, refugees from within Saul's own reign rather than from any foreign army. Two men carrying that history are the ones who walk into the king's house claiming to fetch grain.
This site's exposition
the Beerothites fled to Gittaim
John Gill dates the flight of the Beerothites to the death of Saul, when many in Israel fled their towns. Albert Barnes ties it to the attack of Saul on the Gibeonites at 21:1-2, and he reads Rechab and Baanah as Beerothites avenging their own. Adam Clarke takes Gittaim to be Gath.
The record, by era
The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice
There the Beerothites were when this was written, and probably took root there, and never returned to Beeroth again, which made Beeroth, that had been one of the cities of the Gibeonites ( Josh. ix. 17 ), to be forgotten, and Gittaim to be famous long after, as we find, Neh. xi. How the murder was committed,
The Nineteenth Century1 voice
The Beerothites fled to Gittaim - Probably the same as Gath; as Ramathaim is the same as Ramah.
How the passage was read
What the Jewish commentators add
And the Be'erosites fled When Shaul died, the people of Yisroel abandoned the cities that surround the Peleshtim as is mentioned above. 1 Shmuel I,,7. It was then that the Be'erosites fled.
2 more on this passage, in their own words ▾
Were for the son of Shaul Were for the son of Shaul similar to (Shmuel I,, 8) "until the time of Shmuel" of Shmuel.
Yohanoson, the son of Shaul had. [The verses] continue to recount how the monarchy was stripped from the house of Shaul. He and his sons were killed and this one [Ish Boshes] was killed on his bed and the son of Yohanoson fell and became lame.
This section is reception history: how the passage was read and kept in the Jewish tradition. Where a reading parts from an essential of the Christian faith, the section says so at that point.
Texts and citation data: Sefaria; each excerpt follows its version’s licence. 4 further sources are cited on this chapter that carry no English text this site may quote or only restate the verse.
The words behind it
9 Hebrew wordsEvery Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| וַיִּבְרְח֥וּ | vaiyivrechu | and they fled | H1272 → | 63 times |
| הַבְּאֵרֹתִ֖ים | habeerotim | the Beerothites | H886 → | 5 times |
| גִּתָּ֑יְמָה | gitayemah | Gittaim towards | H1664 → | |
| וַֽיִּהְיוּ־ | vaiyihyu- | and they have been | H1961 → | 3559 times |
| שָׁ֣ם | sham | there | H8033 → | 834 times |
| גָּרִ֔ים | garim | sojourners | H1481 → | |
| עַ֖ד | ʾad | until | H5704 → | 1261 times |
| הַיּ֥וֹם | haiyom | the day | H3117 → | 2304 times |
| הַזֶּֽה׃ ס | hazeh | <the> this | H2088 → | 1180 times |
וַיִּבְרְח֥וּand they fled
vaiyivrechuH1272 →63 times
הַבְּאֵרֹתִ֖יםthe Beerothites
habeerotimH886 →5 times
גִּתָּ֑יְמָהGittaim towards
gitayemahH1664 →
וַֽיִּהְיוּ־and they have been
vaiyihyu-H1961 →3559 times
שָׁ֣םthere
shamH8033 →834 times
גָּרִ֔יםsojourners
garimH1481 →
עַ֖דuntil
ʾadH5704 →1261 times
הַיּ֥וֹםthe day
haiyomH3117 →2304 times
הַזֶּֽה׃ ס<the> this
hazehH2088 →1180 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
8 stopsEach card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.
Through
1 Samuel 31:7When the Israelites along the valley and those on the other side of the Jordan saw that the army of Israel had fled and that Saul and his sons had died, they abandoned their…
it leads to
- Leviticus 26:36
As for those of you who survive, I will send a faintness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies, so that even the sound of a windblown leaf will put them to…
- Deuteronomy 28:33
A people you do not know will eat the produce of your land and of all your toil. All your days you will be oppressed and crushed.
- 1 Samuel 13:6
Seeing that they were in danger because their troops were hard-pressed, the men of Israel hid in caves and thickets, among the rocks, and in cellars and cisterns.
- Judges 6:2
and the hand of Midian prevailed against Israel. Because of the Midianites, the Israelites prepared shelters for themselves in the mountains, caves, and strongholds.
- Leviticus 26:32
And I will lay waste the land, so that your enemies who dwell in it will be appalled.
- Leviticus 26:36
Through
Nehemiah 11:33Hazor, Ramah, Gittaim,
it leads to
- Joshua 18:25
Gibeon, Ramah, Beeroth,
- Matthew 2:18
“A voice is heard in Ramah, weeping and great mourning, Rachel weeping for her children, and refusing to be comforted, because they are no more.”
- 1 Samuel 7:17
Then he would return to Ramah because his home was there, and there he judged Israel and built an altar to the LORD.
- Joshua 18:25
About 2 Samuel
This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.