John Gill's Bible Commentary Ver. 3. And the Beerothites fled to Gittaim, and were sojourners there until that day .] At the death of Saul, when many of the Israelites deserted their cities, and left them to the Philistines, ( 1 Samuel 31:7); and so the inhabitants of Beeroth forsook their city, which was near the Philistines, and went to Gittaim, a city in the same tribe, though a little further off, (see Nehemiah 11:33).
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 1-7 - See how Ishbosheth was murdered! When those difficulties dispirit us which should sharpen our endeavours, we betray both our heavenly crown and our earthly lives. Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty an ruin. The idle soul is an easy prey to the destroyer. We know not when and where death will meet us. When we lie down to sleep, we are no sure that we may not sleep the sleep of death before we awake; nor d we know from what hand the death-blow may come.
Original Hebrew ויברחו1272 הבארתים886 גתימה1664 ויהיו1961 שׁם8033 גרים1481 עד5704 היום3117 הזה׃2088
