1And when Saul's son heard that Abner was
dead in Hebron, his hands were feeble, and all the
Israelites were troubled.
2And 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:
3And the Beerothites fled to Gittaim, and
were sojourners there until this day.)
4And Jonathan, Saul's son, had a son that
was lame of his feet.
He was five years old when the tidings came of Saul
and Jonathan out of Jezreel, and his nurse took him
up, and fled: and it came to pass, as she made haste
to flee, that he fell, and became lame. And his
name was Mephibosheth.
5And the sons of Rimmon the Beerothite,
Rechab and Baanah, went, and came about the heat of
the day to the house of Ishbosheth, who lay on a bed
at noon.
6And they came thither into the midst of the
house, as
though they would have fetched wheat; and they
smote him under the fifth rib:
and Rechab and Baanah his brother escaped.
7For when they came into the house, he lay on
his bed in his bedchamber, and they smote him, and
slew him, and beheaded him, and took his head, and
gat them away through the plain all night.
8And they brought the head of Ishbosheth unto
David to Hebron, and said to the king, Behold the
head of Ishbosheth the son of Saul thine enemy,
which sought thy life; and the LORD hath avenged my
lord the king this day of Saul, and of his seed.
9And David answered Rechab and Baanah his
brother, the sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, and said
unto them, As the
LORD liveth, who hath redeemed my soul out of all
adversity,
10When one told me, saying, Behold, Saul is
dead, thinking to have brought good tidings, I took
hold of him, and slew him in Ziklag, who thought that
I would have given him a reward for his tidings:
11How much more, when wicked men have slain a
righteous person in his own house upon his bed?
shall I not therefore now require his blood of your
hand, and take you away from the earth?
12And David commanded his young men, and they
slew them, and cut off their hands and their feet,
and hanged them up
over the pool in Hebron. But they took the head of
Ishbosheth, and buried it in
the sepulchre of Abner in Hebron.
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