Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of 2 Samuel 4:3
And the Beerothites fled to Gittaim, and were sojourners there until this day.)
3. Gittaim ] A Benjamite town of this name is mentioned in Neh 11:33, but if the reason suggested above for the flight of the Beerothites is the correct one, it can hardly be the same, as they would have chosen a more distant refuge. The name is the dual form of Gath, meaning “two wine-presses,” which suggests that it may possibly have been in Philistia.
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
Verse 3. The Beerothites fled to Gittaim] Probably the same as Gath; as Ramathaim is the same as Ramah.
Fuente: Adam Clarke’s Commentary and Critical Notes on the Bible
And, or, yet, or but; for this comes in to anticipate an objection against what he had now said. It is true, saith he, the
Beerothites fled. as others did, upon the overthrow of Saul and his army, 1Sa 31:7, to a place called
Gittaim, 2Sa 4:3; not that in Benjamin, Neh 11:33, but some other place of that name more remote from the Philistines; and so they were Gittaimites by their present habitation, but Beerothites by their original, and place of their birth.
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole
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, 1Sa 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 Ne 11:33.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
(3) Fled to Gittaim.Neither the cause of their flight, nor the place to which they fled, can be certainly determined. The Beerothites here appear as of the tribe of Benjamin, and it is probable that they fled from the incursions of the Philistines, and that Gittaim is the place mentioned in Neh. 11:35 as occupied by the Benjamites returning from Babylon. The expression until this day makes it likely that the time of the writer was not very far removed from the events which he relates.
Fuente: Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)
3. The Beerothites fled to Gittaim We are nowhere told the cause of this flight, but it has been plausibly conjectured that it arose from Saul’s persecution of the Gibeonites, (2Sa 21:1-2,) for Beeroth was one of their cities. Jos 9:17. Perhaps Rimmon or his sons had suffered by that persecution, and this may have been one reason for this bloody deed of the sons. They wreaked vengeance on the son of Saul for the wrongs committed by his father, as well as sought by the same deed to secure the favour of David. Gittaim was apparently not far from Beeroth, and was inhabited by Benjamites after the captivity, (Neh 11:33,) but its site is now unknown.
Fuente: Whedon’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments
2Sa 4:3 And the Beerothites fled to Gittaim, and were sojourners there until this day.)
Ver. 3. And the Beerothites fled to Gittaim. ] A town of their own tribe, but of far greater security. Hither therefore they fled for fear of the Philistines. See 1Sa 31:7 .
Until this day.
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
1Sa 31:7, Neh 11:33
Reciprocal: Jos 4:9 – and they are there 2Sa 6:10 – Gittite 1Ch 13:13 – the Gittite
Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
2Sa 4:3. The Beerothites fled to Gittaim When Saul was slain, several Israelites left their cities and fled, and the Philistines took possession of them. Among these, it seems, this city was forsaken of its inhabitants; and were sojourners there until this day When this book was written they were not returned to their own country, being commodiously settled at Gittaim.
Fuente: Joseph Bensons Commentary on the Old and New Testaments
4:3 And the Beerothites fled to {d} Gittaim, and were sojourners there until this day.)
(d) After the death of Saul, for fear of the Philistines.