New American Standard Bible 1995

2 Samuel 4:3-12

3and the Beerothites fled to 1Gittaim and have been aliens there until this day).

4Now 2Jonathan, Saul’s son, had a son crippled in his feet. He was five years old when the 3report 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 4 5Mephibosheth.

5So the sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, Rechab and Baanah, departed and came to the house of 6Ish-bosheth in the heat of the day while he was taking his midday rest. 6 7They came to the middle of the house as 8if to get wheat, and 9they struck him in the belly; and Rechab and Baanah his brother escaped. 7Now when they came into the house, as he was lying on his bed in his bedroom, they struck him and killed him and beheaded him. And they took his head and 10 11traveled by way of the Arabah all night. 8Then they brought the head of Ish-bosheth to David at Hebron and said to the king, “Behold, the head of Ish-bosheth 12the son of Saul, your enemy, who sought your life; thus the Lord has given my lord the king vengeance this day on Saul and his 13descendants.”

9David answered Rechab and Baanah his brother, sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, and said to them, “As the Lord lives, 14who has redeemed my life from all distress, 10 15when one told me, saying, ‘Behold, Saul is dead,’ and 16thought he was bringing good news, I seized him and killed him in Ziklag, which was the reward I gave him for his news. 11How much more, when wicked men have killed a righteous man in his own house on his bed, shall I not now 17require his blood from your hand and 18destroy you from the earth?” 12Then 19David 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 20and buried it in the grave of Abner in Hebron.

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Notes

1. 2 Samuel 4:3 Neh 11:33 ↩
2. 2 Samuel 4:4 2 Sam 9:3, 6 ↩
3. 2 Samuel 4:4 1 Sam 31:1-4 ↩
4. 2 Samuel 4:4 I.e. Merib-baal ↩
5. 2 Samuel 4:4 1 Chr 8:34; 9:40 ↩
6. 2 Samuel 4:5 2 Sam 2:8 ↩
7. 2 Samuel 4:6 Lit And here ↩
8. 2 Samuel 4:6 Lit takers of wheat ↩
9. 2 Samuel 4:6 2 Sam 2:23 ↩
10. 2 Samuel 4:7 Lit went ↩
11. 2 Samuel 4:7 2 Sam 2:29 ↩
12. 2 Samuel 4:8 1 Sam 24:4; 25:29 ↩
13. 2 Samuel 4:8 Lit seed ↩
14. 2 Samuel 4:9 Gen 48:16; 1 Kin 1:29; Ps 31:7 ↩
15. 2 Samuel 4:10 2 Sam 1:2, 4, 15 ↩
16. 2 Samuel 4:10 Lit he was as a bearer of good news in his own eyes ↩
17. 2 Samuel 4:11 Gen 9:5; Ps 9:12 ↩
18. 2 Samuel 4:11 Lit burn ↩
19. 2 Samuel 4:12 2 Sam 1:15 ↩
20. 2 Samuel 4:12 2 Sam 3:32 ↩

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