And Saul’s son had two men that were captains of bands: the one called Baanah, and the other called Rechab, the sons of Rimmon a Beerothite of the children of Benjamin: (for [a]Beeroth was reckoned to Benjamin,

Because the Beerothites fled to [b]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.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Samuel 4:2 This city Beeroth was in the tribe of Benjamin, Josh. 18:25.
  2. 2 Samuel 4:3 After the death of Saul, for fear of the Philistines.

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