because the Beerothites fled to Gittaim and have been sojourners there until this day.)
Parallel translations
- WEB and the Beerothites fled to Gittaim, and have lived as foreigners there until today).
- KJV And the Beerothites fled to Gittaim, and were sojourners there until this day.)
- BSB because the Beerothites fled to Gittaim and have lived there as foreigners to this day.
- NASB and the Beerothites fled to Gittaim and have lived there as strangers until this day).
- NLT because the original people of Beeroth fled to Gittaim, where they still live as foreigners.
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A parenthetical note explains that the Beerothites had fled and lived as foreigners in Gittaim. It supplies background to the two assassins.
Overview
This historical aside records that the people of Beeroth had earlier fled to Gittaim and remained there as resident aliens. The note grounds the account in real geography and history. Such incidental details lend the narrative its authentic, eyewitness quality and explain the origins of Rechab and Baanah.
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- Neh 11:33Hazor, Ramah, Gittaim,
- 1 Sam 31:7When the men of Israel who were on the other side of the valley, and those who were beyond the Jordan, saw that the men of Israel fled, and that Saul and his sons were dead, they abandoned the cities and fled; and the Philistines came and lived in them.
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