2 Samuel Chapter 4

2 Samuel Chapter 4
1 And when Saul's son heard that Abner
was dead in Hebron, then his hands
were feeble, and all Israel was afraid,
2 And Saul's son had two men that were
captains of bands: the one called
Baanah, and the other called Rechab, the
sons of Rimmon a Beerothite of the
children of Benjamin. (for Beeroth was
reckoned to Benjamin,
3 Because the Beerothites fled to
Gittaim, and sojourned there, unto this
day). 4 And Jonathan Saul's son had a
son that was lame on his feet: he was
five year old when the tidings came of
Saul and Jonathan out of Israel: then his
nurse took him, and fled away. And as
she made haste to flee, the child fell, and
began to halt, and his name was
Mephibosheth.
5 And the sons of Rimmon the
Beerothite, Rechab and Baanah went and
came in the heat of the day to the house
of Ish-bosheth (who slept on a bed at
noon)
6 And behold, Rechab and Baanah his
brother came into the midst of the house
as they would have wheat, and they
smote him under the fifth rib, and fled.
7 For when they came into the house, he
slept on his bed in his bed chamber, and
they smote him, and slew him, and
beheaded him, and took his head, and gat
them away through the plain all the night.
8 And they brought the head of Ishbosheth
unto David to Hebron, and said
to the king, Behold the head of Ishbosheth
Saul's son thine enemy, who
sought after thy life: and the Lord hath
avenged my lord the king this day of
Saul, and of his seed.
9 Then David answered Rechab and
Baanah his brother, the sons of Rimmon
the Beerothite, and said unto them, As
the Lord liveth, who hath delivered my
soul out of all adversity,
10 When one told me, and said that Saul
was dead, (thinking to have brought
good tidings) I took 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, and upon his bed? Shall I not
now therefore require his blood at your
hand, and take you from the earth?
12 Then 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.