1. 2 Samuel 4:3 (ESV)
  2. Exposition

Why did the Beerothites flee to Gittaim?

2 Samuel 4:3 (ESV)

3 the Beerothites fled to Gittaim and have been sojourners there to this day).

Sometime previously during the reign of Saul (see 2 Samuel 21:1), the Gibeonites had been killed.1 This was likely when the people of Beeroth fled to Gittaim (2 Samuel 4:3). The town was then inhabited by Benjamites.