and the Beerothites fled to (A)Gittaim and have lived there as strangers until this day).

Now (B)Jonathan, Saul’s son, had a son who was disabled in both feet. He was five years old when the (C)news of Saul and Jonathan came from Jezreel, and his nurse picked him up and fled. But it happened that in her hurry to flee, he fell and could no longer walk. And his name was [a](D)Mephibosheth.

So the sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, Rechab and Baanah, departed and came to the house of (E)Ish-bosheth in the heat of the day, while he was taking his midday rest.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Samuel 4:4 In 1 Chr 8:34 and 9:40, Merib-baal

because the people of Beeroth fled to Gittaim(A) and have resided there as foreigners to this day.

(Jonathan(B) son of Saul had a son who was lame in both feet. He was five years old when the news(C) about Saul and Jonathan came from Jezreel. His nurse picked him up and fled, but as she hurried to leave, he fell and became disabled.(D) His name was Mephibosheth.)(E)

Now Rekab and Baanah, the sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, set out for the house of Ish-Bosheth,(F) and they arrived there in the heat of the day while he was taking his noonday rest.(G)

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