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And <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>he lost courage, and all Israel was dismayed. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/4-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>Now Saul’s son <i>had</i> two men who were commanders of bands: the name of the one was Baanah and the name of the other Rechab, sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, of the sons of Benjamin (for Beeroth is also considered <i>part</i> of Benjamin, <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/4-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>and the Beerothites fled to Gittaim and have been sojourners there until this day). <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/4-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>Now Jonathan, Saul’s son, had a son crippled in his feet. He was five years old when the report of Saul and Jonathan came from Jezreel, and his nurse took him up and fled. And it happened that in her hurry to flee, he fell and became lame. And his name was <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>Mephibosheth. <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/4-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>So the sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, Rechab and Baanah, went forth and came to the house of Ish-bosheth in the heat of the day while he was taking his midday rest. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/4-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span><span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>They came to the middle of the house as <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>if to get wheat, and they struck him in the belly; and Rechab and Baanah his brother escaped. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/4-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Thus they came into the house, as he was lying on his bed in his bedroom, and they struck him and put him to death and beheaded him. And they took his head and went on the way <i>leading</i> to the Arabah all night. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/4-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Then they brought the head of Ish-bosheth to David at Hebron and said to the king, “Behold, the head of Ish-bosheth the son of Saul, your enemy, who sought your life; thus Yahweh has given my lord the king vengeance this day on Saul and his seed.” <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/4-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>And David answered Rechab and Baanah his brother, sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, and said to them, “As Yahweh lives, who has redeemed my life from all distress, <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/4-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>when one told me, saying, ‘Behold, Saul is dead,’ and <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>thought he was bringing good news, I seized him and killed him in Ziklag, which was the reward I gave him for <i>his</i> news. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/4-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>How much more, when wicked men have killed a righteous man in his own house on his bed, shall I not now require his blood from your hand and purge you from the earth?” <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/4-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>Then David commanded the young men, and they killed them and cut off their hands and feet and hung them up beside the pool in Hebron. But they took the head of Ish-bosheth and buried it in the grave of Abner in Hebron.<A name="fn"></a></p><br /><br /><span class="fnverse">1</span> As in some ancient mss; M.T. <i>he</i><br><span class="fnverse">1</span> Lit <i>his hands dropped</i><br><span class="fnverse">4</span> Merib-baal<br><span class="fnverse">6</span> Lit <i>And here</i><br><span class="fnverse">6</span> Lit <i>takers of wheat</i><br><span class="fnverse">10</span> Lit <i>he was as a bearer of good news in his own eyes</i><br></div><br /><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Legacy Standard Bible Copyright ©2021 by The Lockman Foundation<br>All rights reserved. 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