KJV King James Version
And the Beerothites fled to Gittaim, and were sojourners there until this day.)
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2 Samuel 4:3
And the Beerothites fled to Gittaim, and were sojourners there until this day.)
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
because the Beerothites fled to Gittaim and have lived there as foreigners to this day.
WEB World English Bible
and the Beerothites fled to Gittaim, and have lived as foreigners there until this day).
ASV American Standard Version
and the Beerothites fled to Gittaim, and have been sojourners there until this day).
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
and the Beerothites flee to Gittaim, and are there sojourners unto this day.
Surrounding context — 2 Samuel 4
1 And when Saul’s son heard that Abner was dead in Hebron, his hands were feeble, and all the Israelites were troubled.
2 And 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:
3 And the Beerothites fled to Gittaim, and were sojourners there until this day.)
4 And Jonathan, Saul’s son, had a son [that was] lame of [his] feet. He was five years old when the tidings came of Saul and Jonathan out of Jezreel, and his nurse took him up, and fled: and it came to pass, as she made haste to flee, that he fell, and became lame. And his name [was] Mephibosheth.
5 And the sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, Rechab and Baanah, went, and came about the heat of the day to the house of Ishbosheth, who lay on a bed at noon.
6 And they came thither into the midst of the house, [as though] they would have fetched wheat; and they smote him under the fifth [rib]: and Rechab and Baanah his brother escaped.
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Nehemiah 11:33Hazor, Ramah, Gittaim,1 Samuel 31:7And when the men of Israel that [were] on the other side of the valley, and [they] that [were] on the other side Jordan, saw that the men of Israel fled, and that Saul and his sons were dead, they forsook the cities, and fled; and the Philistines came and dwelt in them.
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