Saul’s son had two men who were captains of raiding bands. The name of one was Baanah and the name of the other Rechab, the sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, of the children of Benjamin (for Beeroth also is considered a part of Benjamin;
ExplanationCommentary
Verse 2. Bands, (Latronum.) Lit. “robbers,” or people who live on plunder, like the posterity of Ismael, and of Esau. Genesis 27:40. 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. Æn. xii. 7.
See Servius. Judges 11:3.—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 Ezra 11:33. Calmet.