2 Samuel 4:3

3 The Beerothites fled to Gittaim, and they are resident aliens there until this day.

2 Samuel 4:3 Meaning and Commentary

2 Samuel 4:3

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 ) .

2 Samuel 4:3 In-Context

1 When the son of Saul heard that Abner had died in Hebron, {his courage failed} and all of Israel [was] horrified.

2 Two of the men, commanders of the raiding bands, were [for] the son of Saul. The name of one [was] Baanah, and the name of the other [was] Recab, the sons of Rimmon the Beerothite from the descendants of Benjamin; also, Beeroth [was] regarded [as belonging] to Benjamin.

3 The Beerothites fled to Gittaim, and they are resident aliens there until this day.

4 (Now Jonathan the son of Saul had a son who [was] crippled in the feet. He [was] five years old when the message of Saul and Jonathan came from Jezreel, and his nurse had picked him up and fled. It happened that as she [was] hurrying away to flee, he fell and became crippled. His name [was] Mephibosheth.)

5 When the sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, Recab and Baanah, set out, they came at the heat of the day to the house of Ish-Bosheth while {he [was] taking a noontime rest}.