2 Samuel 4:3
And the Beerothites fled to Gittaim, and were sojourners there until this day.)
2 Samuel 4:3 in other translations
| BSB | because the Beerothites fled to Gittaim and have lived there as foreigners to this day. |
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| WEB | and the Beerothites fled to Gittaim, and have lived as foreigners there until today). |
| ASV | and the Beerothites fled to Gittaim, and have been sojourners there until this day). |
| YLT | and the Beerothites flee to Gittaim, and are there sojourners unto this day. |
| DARBY | And the Beerothites had fled to Gittaim, and were sojourners there until this day. |
| BBE | But the people of Beeroth had gone in flight to Gittaim, where they have been living to this day.) |
| Webster | And the Beerothites fled to Gittaim, and have been sojourners there until this day.) |
What does 2 Samuel 4:3 mean?
Adam Clarke's Commentary
Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on 2 Samuel 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…
2 Samuel 4:3 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for 2 Samuel 4:3
- Nehemiah 11:33
Hazor, Ramah, Gittaim,
- 1 Samuel 31:7
And 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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Context
- 2 Samuel 4:2
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:
- 2 Samuel 4:3
And the Beerothites fled to Gittaim, and were sojourners there until this day.)
- 2 Samuel 4:4
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.
2 Samuel 4:3 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Estos Beerothitas se habían huído á Gittaim, y habían sido peregrinos allí hasta entonces.) |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Et les Beérothiens s’enfuirent à Guitthaïm, et ils y ont séjourné jusqu’à aujourd’hui. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | aber die Beerothiter entflohen nach Gittaim und haben sich dort als Fremdlinge aufgehalten bis auf diesen Tag. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Et fugerunt Berothitæ in Gethaim, fueruntque ibi advenæ usque ad tempus illud. |