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1 # And when Saul's <07586> son <01121> heard <08085> (8799) that Abner <074> was dead <04191> (8804) in Hebron <02275>, his hands <03027> were feeble <07503> (8799), and all the Israelites <03478> were troubled <0926> (8738).
2 And Saul's <07586> son <01121> had <01961> (8804) two <08147> men <0582> that were captains <08269> of bands <01416>: the name <08034> of the one <0259> was Baanah <01196>, and the name <08034> of the other <08145> Rechab <07394>, the sons <01121> of Rimmon <07417> a Beerothite <0886>, of the children <01121> of Benjamin <01144> : (for Beeroth <0881> also was reckoned <02803> (8735) to Benjamin <01144>:
3 And the Beerothites <0886> fled <01272> (8799) to Gittaim <01664>, and were sojourners <01481> (8802) there until this day <03117>.)
4 And Jonathan <03083>, Saul's <07586> son <01121>, had a son <01121> that was lame <05223> of his feet <07272>. He was five <02568> years <08141> old <01121> when the tidings <08052> came <0935> (8800) of Saul <07586> and Jonathan <03083> out of Jezreel <03157>, and his nurse <0539> (8802) took him up <05375> (8799), and fled <05127> (8799): and it came to pass, as she made haste <02648> (8800) to flee <05127> (8800), that he fell <05307> (8799), and became lame <06452> (8735). And his name <08034> was Mephibosheth <04648>.
5 And the sons <01121> of Rimmon <07417> the Beerothite <0886>, Rechab <07394> and Baanah <01196>, went <03212> (8799), and came <0935> (8799) about the heat <02527> of the day <03117> to the house <01004> of Ishbosheth <0378>, who lay <07901> (8802) on a bed <04904> at noon <06672>.
6 And they came thither <0935> (8804) into the midst <08432> of the house <01004>, as though they would have fetched <03947> (8802) wheat <02406>; and they smote <05221> (8686) him under the fifth <02570> rib: and Rechab <07394> and Baanah <01196> his brother <0251> escaped <04422> (8738).
7 For when they came <0935> (8799) into the house <01004>, he lay <07901> (8802) on his bed <04296> in his bedchamber <02315> <04904>, and they smote <05221> (8686) him, and slew <04191> (8686) him, and beheaded <05493> (8686) him, and took <03947> (8799) his head <07218>, and gat them away <03212> (8799) through <01870> the plain <06160> all night <03915>.
8 And they brought <0935> (8686) the head <07218> of Ishbosheth <0378> unto David <01732> to Hebron <02275> , and said <0559> (8799) to the king <04428>, Behold the head <07218> of Ishbosheth <0378> the son <01121> of Saul <07586> thine enemy <0341> (8802), which sought <01245> (8765) thy life <05315>; and the LORD <03068> hath <05414> (8799) avenged <05360> my lord <0113> the king <04428> this day <03117> of Saul <07586>, and of his seed <02233> .
9 # And David <01732> answered <06030> (8799) Rechab <07394> and Baanah <01196> his brother <0251>, the sons <01121> of Rimmon <07417> the Beerothite <0886>, and said <0559> (8799) unto them, As the LORD <03068> liveth <02416>, who hath redeemed <06299> (8804) my soul <05315> out of all adversity <06869>,
10 When one told <05046> (8688) me, saying <0559> (8800), Behold, Saul <07586> is dead <04191> (8804), thinking to have brought <05869> good tidings <01319> (8764), I took hold <0270> (8799) of him, and slew <02026> (8799) him in Ziklag <06860>, who thought that I would have given <05414> (8800) him a reward for his tidings <01309>:
11 How much more, when wicked <07563> men <0582> have slain <02026> (8804) a righteous <06662> person <0376> in his own house <01004> upon his bed <04904>? shall I not therefore now require <01245> (8762) his blood <01818> of your hand <03027>, and take you away <01197> (8765) from the earth <0776>?
12 And David <01732> commanded <06680> (8762) his young men <05288>, and they slew <02026> (8799) them, and cut off <07112> (8762) their hands <03027> and their feet <07272>, and hanged them up <08518> (8799) over the pool <01295> in Hebron <02275>. But they took <03947> (8804) the head <07218> of Ishbosheth <0378>, and buried <06912> (8799) it in the sepulchre <06913> of Abner <074> in Hebron <02275>.