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New Century Version

2 Samuel 4:3

The people of Beeroth ran away to Gittaim, and they still live there as foreigners today.)

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Gittaim;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Baanah and Rechab;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Gittaim;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Bannah;   Beeroth;   Gittaim;   Rimmon;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Alien;   Beeroth;   Court Systems;   Gittaim;   Ish-Bosheth;   Rechab;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Beeroth;   Gittaim;   Rechab, Rechabites;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Baanah ;   Beeroth ;   Gittaim ;   Rechab ;   Rimmon ;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Git'tites;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Hebrew Monarchy, the;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Gittaim;   Rechab;   Samuel, Books of;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Beeroth;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
and the Beerothites fled to Gittaim and still reside there as aliens today.
Hebrew Names Version
and the Be'erotites fled to Gittayim, and have been sojourners there until this day).
King James Version
And the Beerothites fled to Gittaim, and were sojourners there until this day.)
Lexham English Bible
The Beerothites fled to Gittaim, and they are resident aliens there until this day.
English Standard Version
the Beerothites fled to Gittaim and have been sojourners there to this day).
New English Translation
for the Beerothites fled to Gittaim and have remained there as resident foreigners until the present time.)
Amplified Bible
and the Beerothites fled to Gittaim, and have been resident aliens there to this day).
New American Standard Bible
and the Beerothites fled to Gittaim and have lived there as strangers until this day).
Geneva Bible (1587)
Because the Beerothites fled to Gittaim, and soiourned there, vnto this day).
Legacy Standard Bible
and the Beerothites fled to Gittaim and have been sojourners there until this day).
Contemporary English Version
The people who used to live in Beeroth had run away to Gittaim, and they still live there.
Complete Jewish Bible
even though the Be'erotim fled to Gittayim and have lived as foreigners there to this day).
Darby Translation
And the Beerothites had fled to Gittaim, and were sojourners there until this day.
Easy-to-Read Version
But all the people in Beeroth ran away to Gittaim, and they are still living there today.)
George Lamsa Translation
And the Beerothites fled to Gittaim and are sojourners there until this day).
Good News Translation
Its original inhabitants had fled to Gittaim, where they have lived ever since.)
Literal Translation
And the Beerothites fled to Gittaim, and are aliens there to this day.)
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And the Berothites were fled vnto Gethaim, & were straugers there vnto this daye.
American Standard Version
and the Beerothites fled to Gittaim, and have been sojourners there until this day).
Bible in Basic English
But the people of Beeroth had gone in flight to Gittaim, where they have been living to this day.)
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And these Berothites fled to Githaim, and soiourned there vntill this day)
JPS Old Testament (1917)
and the Beerothites fled to Gittaim, and have been sojourners there until this day.
King James Version (1611)
And the Beerothites fled to Gittaim, and were soiourners there vntill this day.)
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And the Berothites ran away to Gethaim, and were sojourners there until this day.
English Revised Version
and the Beerothites fled to Gittaim, and have been sojourners there until this day.)
Berean Standard Bible
because the Beerothites fled to Gittaim and live there as foreigners to this very day).
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And men of Beroth fledden in to Gethaym; and thei weren comelyngis there `til to that tyme.
Young's Literal Translation
and the Beerothites flee to Gittaim, and are there sojourners unto this day.
Update Bible 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 been sojourners there until this day).
New King James Version
because the Beerothites fled to Gittaim and have been sojourners there until this day.)
New Living Translation
because the original people of Beeroth fled to Gittaim, where they still live as foreigners.
New Life Bible
The people of Beeroth ran to Gittaim, and have been strangers there to this day.)
New Revised Standard
(Now the people of Beeroth had fled to Gittaim and are there as resident aliens to this day).
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
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.
Revised Standard Version
the Be-er'othites fled to Gitta'im, 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).

Contextual Overview

1 When Ish-Bosheth son of Saul heard that Abner had died at Hebron, he was shocked and all Israel became frightened. 2 Two men who were captains in Saul's army came to Ish-Bosheth. One was named Baanah, and the other was named Recab. They were the sons of Rimmon of Beeroth, who was a Benjaminite. (The town Beeroth belonged to the tribe of Benjamin. 3 The people of Beeroth ran away to Gittaim, and they still live there as foreigners today.) 4 (Saul's son Jonathan had a son named Mephibosheth, who was crippled in both feet. He was five years old when the news came from Jezreel that Saul and Jonathan were dead. Mephibosheth's nurse had picked him up and run away. But as she hurried to leave, she dropped him, and now he was lame.) 5 Recab and Baanah, sons of Rimmon from Beeroth, went to Ish-Bosheth's house in the afternoon while he was taking a nap. 6They went into the middle of the house as if to get some wheat. Ish-Bosheth was lying on his bed in his bedroom. Then Recab and Baanah stabbed him in the stomach, killed him, cut off his head, and took it with them. They escaped and traveled all night through the Jordan Valley. 8 When they arrived at Hebron, they gave his head to David and said to the king, "Here is the head of Ish-Bosheth son of Saul, your enemy. He tried to kill you! Today the Lord has paid back Saul and his family for what they did to you!"

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

1 Samuel 31:7, Nehemiah 11:33

Reciprocal: Joshua 4:9 - and they are there 2 Samuel 6:10 - Gittite 1 Chronicles 13:13 - the Gittite

Cross-References

Genesis 4:1
Adam had sexual relations with his wife Eve, and she became pregnant and gave birth to Cain. Eve said, "With the Lord 's help, I have given birth to a man."
Genesis 4:11
And now you will be cursed in your work with the ground, the same ground where your brother's blood fell and where your hands killed him.
Numbers 18:12
"And I give you all the best olive oil and all the best new wine and grain. This is what the Israelites give to me, the Lord , from the first crops they harvest.
1 Kings 17:7
After a while the stream dried up because there was no rain.
Nehemiah 13:6
I was not in Jerusalem when this happened. I had gone back to Artaxerxes king of Babylon in the thirty-second year he was king. Finally I asked the king to let me leave.

Gill's Notes on the 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.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 2 Samuel 4:3. The Beerothites fled to Gittaim — Probably the same as Gath; as Ramathaim is the same as Ramah.


 
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