2 Samuel 4:3
◄  2 Samuel 4:3  ►
New International Version (©2011)
because the people of Beeroth fled to Gittaim and have resided there as foreigners to this day.

New Living Translation (©2007)
because the original people of Beeroth fled to Gittaim, where they still live as foreigners.

English Standard Version (©2001)
the Beerothites fled to Gittaim and have been sojourners there to this day).

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
and the Beerothites fled to Gittaim and have been aliens there until this day).

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
And the Beerothites fled to Gittaim, and were sojourners there until this day.)

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
and the Beerothites fled to Gittaim and still live there as foreigners to this very day.

International Standard Version (©2012)
(The residents of Beeroth had evacuated to Gittaim and live there as resident aliens to this day.)

NET Bible (©2006)
for the Beerothites fled to Gittaim and have remained there as resident foreigners until the present time.)

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
even though the people of Beeroth had fled to Gittaim. They still live there today.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
And the Beerothites fled to Gittaim, and were sojourners there until this day.)

American King James Version
And the Beerothites fled to Gittaim, and were sojourners there until this day.)

American Standard Version
and the Beerothites fled to Gittaim, and have been sojourners there until this day).

Douay-Rheims Bible
And the Berothites fled into Gethaim, and were sojourners there until that time.

Darby Bible Translation
And the Beerothites had fled to Gittaim, and were sojourners there until this day.

English Revised Version
and the Beerothites fled to Gittaim, and have been sojourners there until this day.)

Webster's Bible Translation
And the Beerothites fled to Gittaim, and have been sojourners there until this day.)

World English Bible
and the Beerothites fled to Gittaim, and have lived as foreigners there until this day).

Young's Literal Translation
and the Beerothites flee to Gittaim, and are there sojourners unto this day.

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

4:1-7 See how Ishbosheth was murdered! When those difficulties dispirit us, which should sharpen our endeavours, we betray both our heavenly crowns and our earthly lives. Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty and ruin. The idle soul is an easy prey to the destroyer. We know not when and where death will meet us. When we lie down to sleep, we are not sure that we may not sleep the sleep of death before we awake; nor do we know from what hand the death-blow may come.

Pulpit Commentary

Verse 3. - Gittaim. This word is a dual, and means "the two Gaths;" the one being, probably, the acropolis, or upper town, at the foot of which nestled a new Gath, protected by the ancient stronghold. It is mentioned as belonging to Benjamin in Nehemiah 11:33; but could not have been an Israelite town at this time, as the Beerothites are described as sojourners, that is, dwellers in a foreign country. When expelled from Beeroth, they probably seized Gittaim by force, and, on the reconciliation effected by the execution of Saul's sons, returned to their allegiance to Israel.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And 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, 1 Samuel 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 Nehemiah 11:33.

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The Murder of Ishbosheth
1And when Saul's son heard that Abner was dead in Hebron, his hands were feeble, and all the Israelites were troubled. 2And Saul's son had two men that were captains of bands: the name of the one was Baanah, and the name of the other Rechab, the sons of Rimmon a Beerothite, of the children of Benjamin: (for Beeroth also was reckoned to Benjamin. 3And the Beerothites fled to Gittaim, and were sojourners there until this day.) …

Nehemiah 11:33 in Hazor, Ramah and Gittaim,
2 Samuel 4:4 (Jonathan son of Saul had a son who was lame in both feet. He was five years old when the news about Saul and Jonathan came from Jezreel. His nurse picked him up and fled, but as she hurried to leave, he fell and became disabled. His name was Mephibosheth.)