1 Ouvindo, pois, o filho de Saul, que Abner morrera em Hebrom, as mãos se lhe afrouxaram; e todo o Israel pasmou.

2 E tinha o filho de Saul dois homens capitães de tropas; e era o nome de um Baaná, e o nome do outro Recabe, filhos de Rimom, o beerotita, dos filhos de Benjamim, porque também Beerote se reputava de Benjamim.

3 E tinham fugido os beerotitas para Gitaim, e ali têm peregrinado até ao dia de hoje.

4 E Jônatas, filho de Saul, tinha um filho aleijado de ambos os pés; era da idade de cinco anos quando as novas de Saul e Jônatas vieram de Jizreel, e sua ama o tomou, e fugiu; e sucedeu que, apressando-se ela a fugir, ele caiu, e ficou coxo; e o seu nome era Mefibosete.

5 E foram os filhos de Rimom, o beerotita, Recabe e Baaná, e entraram em casa de Is-Bosete no maior calor do dia, estando ele deitado a dormir, ao meio-dia.

6 E ali entraram até ao meio da casa, como que vindo buscar trigo, e o feriram na quinta costela; e Recabe e Baaná, seu irmão, escaparam.

7 Porque entraram na sua casa, estando ele na cama deitado, no seu quarto, e o feriram, e o mataram, e lhe cortaram a cabeça; e, tomando a sua cabeça, andaram toda a noite caminhando pela planície.

8 E trouxeram a cabeça de Is-Bosete a Davi, a Hebrom, e disseram ao rei: Eis aqui a cabeça de Is-Bosete, filho de Saul, teu inimigo, que procurava a tua morte; assim o SENHOR vingou hoje ao rei meu senhor, de Saul e da sua descendência.

9 Porém Davi, respondendo a Recabe e a Baaná, seu irmão, filhos de Rimom, o beerotita, disse-lhes: Vive o Senhor, que remiu a minha alma de toda a angústia,

10 Se aquele que me trouxe novas, dizendo: Eis que Saul é morto, parecendo-lhe, porém, aos olhos que era como quem trazia boas novas, eu logo lancei mão dele, e o matei em Ziclague, cuidando ele que eu por isso lhe desse recompensa.

11 Quanto mais a ímpios homens, que mataram um homem justo em sua casa, sobre a sua cama; agora, pois, não requereria eu o seu sangue de vossas mãos, e não vos exterminaria da terra?

12 E deu Davi ordem aos seus moços que os matassem; e cortaram-lhes os pés e as mãos, e os penduraram sobre o tanque de Hebrom; tomaram, porém, a cabeça de Is-Bosete, e a sepultaram na sepultura de Abner, em Hebrom.

1 When Ish-Bosheth son of Saul heard that Abner had died in Hebron, he lost courage, and all Israel became alarmed.

2 Now Saul's son had two men who were leaders of raiding bands. One was named Baanah and the other Rekab; they were sons of Rimmon the Beerothite from the tribe of Benjamin —Beeroth is considered part of Benjamin,

3 because the people of Beeroth fled to Gittaim and have resided there as foreigners to this day.

4 (Jonathan son of Saul had a son who was lame in both feet. He was five years old when the news about Saul and Jonathan came from Jezreel. His nurse picked him up and fled, but as she hurried to leave, he fell and became disabled. His name was Mephibosheth.)

5 Now Rekab and Baanah, the sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, set out for the house of Ish-Bosheth, and they arrived there in the heat of the day while he was taking his noonday rest.

6 They went into the inner part of the house as if to get some wheat, and they stabbed him in the stomach. Then Rekab and his brother Baanah slipped away.

7 They had gone into the house while he was lying on the bed in his bedroom. After they stabbed and killed him, they cut off his head. Taking it with them, they traveled all night by way of the Arabah.

8 They brought the head of Ish-Bosheth to David at Hebron and said to the king, "Here is the head of Ish-Bosheth son of Saul, your enemy, who tried to kill you. This day the LORD has avenged my lord the king against Saul and his offspring."

9 David answered Rekab and his brother Baanah, the sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, "As surely as the LORD lives, who has delivered me out of every trouble,

10 when someone told me, 'Saul is dead,' and thought he was bringing good news, I seized him and put him to death in Ziklag. That was the reward I gave him for his news!

11 How much more —when wicked men have killed an innocent man in his own house and on his own bed —should I not now demand his blood from your hand and rid the earth of you!"

12 So David gave an order to his men, and they killed them. They cut off their hands and feet and hung the bodies by the pool in Hebron. But they took the head of Ish-Bosheth and buried it in Abner's tomb at Hebron.