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Beeroth is also considered part of Benjamin,<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/4-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Now Saul’s son had two men who were captains of raiding bands; the name of the one was Baanah, and the name of the other Rechab, sons of Rimmon a man of Benjamin from Beeroth (for Beeroth also is counted part of Benjamin;</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/4-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span><span class="btext1">and the Beerothites fled to Gittaim and still reside there as aliens today.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/4-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span><span class="btext2">the Beerothites fled to Gittaim and have been sojourners there to this day).</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/4-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Saul's son Jonathan had a son whose feet were crippled. He was five years old when the report about Saul and Jonathan came from Jezreel. His nanny picked him up and fled, but as she was hurrying to flee, he fell and became lame. His name was Mephibosheth.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/4-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Jonathan, the son of Saul, had a son who was crippled in his feet. He was five years old when the news about Saul and Jonathan came from Jezreel, and his nurse took him up and fled, and as she fled in her haste, he fell and became lame. And his name was Mephibosheth.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/4-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Rechab and Baanah, the sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, set out and arrived at Ish-bosheth's house during the heat of the day while the king was taking his midday nap.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/4-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Now the sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, Rechab and Baanah, set out, and about the heat of the day they came to the house of Ish-bosheth as he was taking his noonday rest.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/4-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span><span class="btext1">They entered the interior of the house as if to get wheat and stabbed him in the stomach. Then Rechab and his brother Baanah escaped.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/4-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span><span class="btext2">And they came into the midst of the house as if to get wheat, and they stabbed him in the stomach. Then Rechab and Baanah his brother escaped.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/4-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span><span class="btext1">They had entered the house while Ish-bosheth was lying on his bed in his bedroom and stabbed and killed him. They removed his head, took it, and traveled by way of the Arabah all night.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/4-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span><span class="btext2">When they came into the house, as he lay on his bed in his bedroom, they struck him and put him to death and beheaded him. They took his head and went by the way of the Arabah all night,</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/4-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span><span class="btext1">They brought Ish-bosheth's head to David at Hebron and said to the king, "Here's the head of Ish-bosheth son of Saul, your enemy who intended to take your life. Today the LORD has granted vengeance to my lord the king against Saul and his offspring."<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/4-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span><span class="btext2">and brought the head of Ish-bosheth to David at Hebron. And they said to the king, “Here is the head of Ish-bosheth, the son of Saul, your enemy, who sought your life. The LORD has avenged my lord the king this day on Saul and on his offspring.”</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/4-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span><span class="btext1">But David answered Rechab and his brother Baanah, sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, "As the LORD lives, the one who has redeemed my life from every distress,<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/4-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span><span class="btext2">But David answered Rechab and Baanah his brother, the sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, “As the LORD lives, who has redeemed my life out of every adversity,</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/4-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span><span class="btext1">when the person told me, 'Look, Saul is dead,' he thought he was a bearer of good news, but I seized him and put him to death at Ziklag. That was my reward to him for his news!<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/4-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span><span class="btext2">when one told me, ‘Behold, Saul is dead,’ and thought he was bringing good news, I seized him and killed him at Ziklag, which was the reward I gave him for his news.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/4-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span><span class="btext1">How much more when wicked men kill a righteous man in his own house on his own bed! So now, should I not require his blood from you and purge you from the earth?"<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/4-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span><span class="btext2">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 at your hand and destroy you from the earth?”</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/4-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span><span class="btext1">So David gave orders to the young men, and they killed Rechab and Baanah. 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