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1 And when Saul’s son heard
that Abner was dead in Hebron, his hands were feeble, and all the Israelites
were troubled.
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:
3 And the Beerothites fled to Gittaim, and
were sojourners there until this day.)
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.
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.
6 And 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.
7 For 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.
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 thine enemy, which sought thy life; and the LORD hath avenged my
lord the king this day of Saul, and of his seed.
9 And 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,
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:
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?
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 sepulchre of Abner in Hebron.
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