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Monday, August 18th, 2025
the Week of Proper 15 / Ordinary 20
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Young's Literal Translation

2 Samuel 4:3

and the Beerothites flee to Gittaim, and are there sojourners unto this day.

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 Century Version
The people of Beeroth ran away to Gittaim, and they still live there as foreigners today.)
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.
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 And the son of Saul heareth that Abner [is] dead in Hebron, and his hands are feeble, and all Israel have been troubled. 2 And two men, heads of troops, have been [to] the son of Saul, the name of the one [is] Baanah, and the name of the second Rechab, sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, of the sons of Benjamin, for also Beeroth is reckoned to Benjamin, 3 and the Beerothites flee to Gittaim, and are there sojourners unto this day. 4 And to Jonathan son of Saul [is] a son -- lame; he was a son of five years at the coming in of the rumour of [the death of] Saul and Jonathan, out of Jezreel, and his nurse lifteth him up, and fleeth, and it cometh to pass in her hasting to flee, that he falleth, and becometh lame, and his name [is] Mephibosheth. 5 And the sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, Rechab and Baanah, go, and come in at the heat of the day unto the house of Ish-Bosheth, and he is lying down -- the lying down of noon; 6 and thither they have come, unto the midst of the house, taking wheat, and they smite him unto the fifth [rib], and Rechab and Baanah his brother have escaped; 7 yea, they come in to the house, and he is lying on his bed, in the inner part of his bed-chamber, and they smite him, and put him to death, and turn aside his head, and they take his head, and go the way of the plain all the night, 8 and bring in the head of Ish-Bosheth unto David in Hebron, and say unto the king, `Lo, the head of Ish-Bosheth, son of Saul, thine enemy, who sought thy life; and Jehovah doth give to my lord the king vengeance this day, of Saul and of his seed.'

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
And the man knew Eve his wife, and she conceiveth and beareth Cain, and saith, `I have gotten a man by Jehovah;'
Genesis 4:11
and now, cursed [art] thou from the ground, which hath opened her mouth to receive the blood of thy brother from thy hand;
Numbers 18:12
all the best of the oil, and all the best of the new wine, and wheat -- their first-[fruits] which they give to Jehovah -- to thee I have given them.
1 Kings 17:7
And it cometh to pass, at the end of days, that the brook drieth up, for there hath been no rain in the land,
Nehemiah 13:6
And during all this I was not in Jerusalem, for in the thirty and second year of Artaxerxes king of Babylon did I come unto the king, and at the end of days I have asked of the king,

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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