Teks -- 2 Samuel 4:2 (NET)

4:2 Now Saul’s son had two men who were in charge of raiding units; one was named Baanah and the other Recab. They were sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, who was a Benjaminite. (Beeroth is regarded as belonging to Benjamin,

Tafsiran/Catatan -- Catatan Kata/Frasa (per frasa)

Clarke: 2Sa 4:2

Captains of bands - Principes latronum , captains of banditti, says the Vulgate; the Syriac is the same. Whether Ish-bosheth kept bands of marauders, whose business it was to make sudden incursions into the country places, and carry off grain, provisions, cattle, etc., we know not; but such persons would be well qualified for the bloody work in which these two men were afterwards employed.

TSK: 2Sa 4:2 - captains // other // Beeroth

captains : 2Sa 3:22; 2Ki 5:2, 2Ki 6:23

other : Heb. second

Beeroth : Jos 9:17, Jos 18:25

Tafsiran/Catatan -- Catatan Kata/Frasa (per Ayat)

Poole: 2Sa 4:2 - Of the children of Benjamin // Beeroth also, was reckoned to Benjamin

Of the children of Benjamin of Ish-bosheth’ s own tribe, whom therefore he trusted the more; and this gave them opportunity to execute their wicked design.

Beeroth also, was reckoned to Benjamin: this is added as the reason why he called them Beerothites , because though Beeroth was now in the hands and possession of the Philistines, 1Sa 31:7 , yet of right it belonged to the Benjamites, Jos 18:25 .

Haydock: 2Sa 4:2 - Bands // Impavidus frangit telum // Beroth

Bands, ( Latronum. ) Literally, "robbers," or people who live on plunder, like the posterity of Ismael, and of Esau, Genesis xxvii. 40. The life-guards of princes are often styled latrones, (Calmet) from their being stationed at their "sides," as if Laterones. (Menochius) ----- Fixumque latronis,

Impavidus frangit telum. (Virgil, Æneid xii. 7.)

See Servius. (Judges xi. 3.) ---

Beroth was one of the towns of the Gabaonites. It is not certain that the inhabitants retired, in consequence of the persecution of Saul; but they went to the territory of Geth, or to another town of Benjamin, 2 Esdras xi. 33. (Calmet)

Gill: 2Sa 4:2 - And Saul's son had two men that were captains of bands // the name of the one was Baanah, and the name of the other Rechab, the sons of Rimmon a Beerothite, of the children of Benjamin // for Beeroth also was reckoned to Benjamin

And Saul's son had two men that were captains of bands,.... Of troops in the army, or of guards about the person of Ishbosheth son of Saul:

the name of the one was Baanah, and the name of the other Rechab, the sons of Rimmon a Beerothite, of the children of Benjamin; so that these men were brethren in nature, as well as in iniquity; they had the same father, who is described by his name and city, and their names are expressly mentioned and recorded to their infamy; and they were not only the servants of Ishbosheth, who had commissions under him, but were of the same tribe with him; all which is observed as an aggravation of their crime:

for Beeroth also was reckoned to Benjamin; the place from whom Rimmon their father is denominated, and where he dwelt, as well as Gittaim, where they had sojourned, as in 2Sa 4:3. This place, Beeroth, originally belonged to the Gibeonites, and fell to the lot of Benjamin at the division of the land, see Jos 9:17.