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          DASV: 2 Samuel 4    

1 When Ish-bosheth, Saul's son, heard that Abner was dead in
Hebron, his courage failed, and all the Israelites were alarmed.
2 Saul's son, had two men who were captains of the raiding bands.
The name of the one was Baanah and the other Rechab. They
were the sons of Rimmon the Beerothite the Benjaminite
(for Beeroth was reckoned as belonging to Benjamin).
3 Now the Beerothites had fled to Gittaim and have been resident
foreigners there until this day.
4 Jonathan, Saul's son, had a son who was crippled in both feet.
He was five years old when the news came about Saul and
Jonathan out of Jezreel. His nurse picked him up and fled.
In her haste to flee, he fell and became lame. His name
was Mephibosheth.
5 Now the sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, Rechab and Baanah, set
out during the heat of the day for the house of Ish-bosheth,
as he took his midday rest.
6 They entered into the midst of the house, as if to get wheat,
and instead they stabbed him in the stomach. Then Rechab and
his brother Baanah escaped.

7 Now when they came into the house, he was laying on his bed in
his bedroom, they struck and killed him, and beheaded him. Then
they took his head and traveled all night by the way of the Arabah.
8 They brought the head of Ish-bosheth to David at Hebron, and told
the king, "Look, 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 descendants."
9 But David answered Rechab and his brother Baanah, the sons of
Rimmon the Beerothite, "As the LORD lives, who has delivered my
life out of every adversity,
10 when someone told me, 'Look, Saul is dead, thinking to have
brought good news,' I grabbed and slew him in Ziklag. This was
the reward I gave him for his news.
11 How much more when wicked men have slain a righteous person
in his own house in his own bed, should I not require his blood
at your hand, and remove you from the earth?"
12 So David commanded his young men, and they killed them. They cut
off their hands and their feet and hung their bodies beside the
pool at Hebron. But they took the head of Ish-bosheth,
and buried it in the tomb of Abner in Hebron.

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