Gittaim

Gittaim ("two winepresses") was a Benjaminite town where the surviving Beerothites took refuge after King Saul violated Israel's ancient treaty with the Gibeonites and slaughtered many of them in his zeal for Israel and Judah (2 Samuel 4:3, 21:1-2). The flight to Gittaim is mentioned as background context for the Beerothite identity of Rechab and Baanah, the two captains of Ish-bosheth's army who murdered the Benjaminite king and brought his head to David, expecting a reward — and who were promptly executed by David instead. Gittaim was later repopulated in the post-exile period when the returnees from Babylon settled the central Benjaminite hill country: "the people of Benjamin lived in Geba, Michmash, Aija, Bethel and its villages, Anathoth, Nob, Ananiah, Hazor, Ramah, Gittaim, Hadid, Zeboim, Neballat, Lod, and Ono" (Nehemiah 11:31-35). The exact site is uncertain but lay somewhere in central Benjamin near Ramleh.