Because the Beerothites fled to [a]Gittaim, and sojourned there, unto this day.)

And Jonathan Saul’s son had a son that was lame on his feet: he was five years old when the tidings came of Saul and Jonathan out of Israel: then his nurse took him, and fled away. And as she made haste to flee, the child fell, and began to halt, and his name was Mephibosheth.

And the sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, Rechab and Baanah went and came in the heat of the day to the house of Ishbosheth (who slept on a bed at noon.)

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Samuel 4:3 After the death of Saul, for fear of the Philistines.

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