Gittaim

Gittaim is a place mentioned twice — once as a refuge in the early monarchy, once as a resettled town after the exile.

Refuge of the Beerothites

The town first appears as a place of flight: "and the Beerothites fled to Gittaim, and have been sojourners there until this day)" (2Sa 4:3). The Beerothites — counted with Benjamin in the surrounding context — leave Beeroth and remain at Gittaim as sojourners through the writer's own day.

A Resettled Town after the Return

Centuries later it surfaces in the resettlement list of Benjaminite towns: "Hazor, Ramah, Gittaim," (Ne 11:33). The town is grouped with Hazor and Ramah in the line of Benjamin's repopulated villages.