2 Samuel
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 smote 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 smote him, and slew him, and beheaded him, and took his head,
and gat 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 thine enemy,
which sought thy life; and the LORD hath 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 liveth, who hath 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 sepulchre of
Abner in Hebron.
