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II SAMUEL ยท Chapter 4
4:1 And when Saul's son heard that Abner was dead in Hebron, his hands
were feeble, and all the Israelites were troubled.
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.
4:3 And the Beerothites fled to Gittaim, and were sojourners there
until this day.)
4:4 And 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.
4:5 And 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.
4:6 And they came thither into the midst of the house, as though they
would have fetched wheat; and they stroke him under the fifth rib: and
Rechab and Baanah his brother escaped.
4:7 For when they came into the house, he lay on his bed in his bedchamber,
and they stroke him, and slew him, and beheaded him, and took his head,
and got them away through the plain all night.
4:8 And they brought the head of Ishbosheth unto David to Hebron, and
said to the king, Behold the head of Ishbosheth the son of Saul your enemy,
which sought your life; and the LORD has avenged my lord the king this
day of Saul, and of his seed.
4:9 And David answered Rechab and Baanah his brother, the sons of Rimmon
the Beerothite, and said unto them, As the LORD lives, who has redeemed
my soul out of all adversity,
4:10 When 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:
4:11 How 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?
4:12 And 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 tomb of Abner
in Hebron.
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