2 Samuel 4

¹And when Saul’s son heard that Abner was dead in Hebron, his hands were feeble, and all the Israelites were troubled.Selected2 Samuel 4:1CopyShareAsk

²And Saul’s son had two men that were captains of bands: the name of the one was Baanah, and the name of the other Rechab, the sons of Rimmon a Beerothite, of the children of Benjamin: (for Beeroth also was reckoned to Benjamin.Selected2 Samuel 4:2CopyShareAsk

³And the Beerothites fled to Gittaim, and were sojourners there until this day.)Selected2 Samuel 4:3CopyShareAsk

⁴And Jonathan, Saul’s son, had a son that was lame of his feet. He was five years old when the tidings came of Saul and Jonathan out of Jezreel, and his nurse took him up, and fled: and it came to pass, as she made haste to flee, that he fell, and became lame. And his name was Mephibosheth.Selected2 Samuel 4:4CopyShareAsk

⁵And the sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, Rechab and Baanah, went, and came about the heat of the day to the house of Ishbosheth, who lay on a bed at noon.Selected2 Samuel 4:5CopyShareAsk

⁶And they came thither into the midst of the house, as though they would have fetched wheat; and they smote him under the fifth rib: and Rechab and Baanah his brother escaped.Selected2 Samuel 4:6CopyShareAsk

⁷For when they came into the house, he lay on his bed in his bedchamber, and they smote him, and slew him, and beheaded him, and took his head, and gat them away through the plain all night.Selected2 Samuel 4:7CopyShareAsk

⁸And they brought the head of Ishbosheth unto David to Hebron, and said to the king, Behold the head of Ishbosheth the son of Saul thine enemy, which sought thy life; and the LORD hath avenged my lord the king this day of Saul, and of his seed.Selected2 Samuel 4:8CopyShareAsk

⁹And David answered Rechab and Baanah his brother, the sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, and said unto them, As the LORD liveth, who hath redeemed my soul out of all adversity,Selected2 Samuel 4:9CopyShareAsk

¹⁰When one told me, saying, Behold, Saul is dead, thinking to have brought good tidings, I took hold of him, and slew him in Ziklag, who thought that I would have given him a reward for his tidings:Selected2 Samuel 4:10CopyShareAsk

¹¹How much more, when wicked men have slain a righteous person in his own house upon his bed? shall I not therefore now require his blood of your hand, and take you away from the earth?Selected2 Samuel 4:11CopyShareAsk

¹²And 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.Selected2 Samuel 4:12CopyShareAsk