1 扫罗的儿子伊施波设听见押尼珥在希伯仑死了， 就怕得手都发软， 以色列众人也都惊惶失措。 2 扫罗的儿子伊施波设有两个统率突击队的将领， 一个名叫巴拿， 一个名叫利甲， 他们是便雅悯支派比录人临门的儿子。（比录也算是便雅悯的一部分。 3 比录人原先逃到基他音， 就在那里寄居， 直到今日。） 4 扫罗的儿子约拿单有一个儿子， 双腿都跛了。扫罗和约拿单死亡的消息从耶斯列传到的时候， 他才五岁。他的乳母抱着他逃跑。乳母在慌忙中逃跑， 孩子掉了下来， 腿就瘸了。他的名字叫米非波设。 5 比录人临门的儿子利甲和巴拿出去， 约在正午炎热的时候， 来到了伊施波设的家。伊施波设正在睡午觉。 6 他们进了屋里， 假装要拿麦子， 就刺透伊施波设的肚腹， 然后利甲和他的兄弟巴拿都逃脱了。 7 他们进屋子的时候， 伊施波设正在自己的卧室里躺在床上， 他们刺透他， 把他杀死， 然后割下他的头， 拿着头颅在亚拉巴的路上走了一夜， 8 把伊施波设的头带到希伯仑去见大卫， 对王说： "你的仇敌扫罗过去常常寻索你的命。看哪！ 这是他儿子伊施波设的头。今天耶和华在扫罗和他后裔的身上为我主我王报了仇了。" 9 大卫回答比录人临门的儿子利甲和他的兄弟巴拿， 说： "我指着那曾救赎我的命脱离一切患难的永活的耶和华起誓： 10 从前有人向我报信说： ‘看哪！ 扫罗死了。’他自以为是报好消息， 我却抓住他， 把他杀在洗革拉， 这就是我给他作报好消息的酬报。 11 何况恶人在义人的家里， 把义人杀在床上。现在我怎能不从你们手中追讨流他血的罪， 把你们从这世上除灭呢？" 12 于是， 大卫吩咐年轻人把他们杀了， 并且砍断他们的手脚， 把身体挂在希伯仑的水池旁边； 却把伊施波设的头拿去， 埋葬在希伯仑押尼珥的坟墓里。

1 And the son of Saul heareth that Abner [is] dead in Hebron, and his hands are feeble, and all Israel have been troubled.2 And two men, heads of troops, have been [to] the son of Saul, the name of the one [is] Baanah, and the name of the second Rechab, sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, of the sons of Benjamin, for also Beeroth is reckoned to Benjamin,3 and the Beerothites flee to Gittaim, and are there sojourners unto this day.4 And to Jonathan son of Saul [is] a son -- lame; he was a son of five years at the coming in of the rumour of [the death of] Saul and Jonathan, out of Jezreel, and his nurse lifteth him up, and fleeth, and it cometh to pass in her hasting to flee, that he falleth, and becometh lame, and his name [is] Mephibosheth.5 And the sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, Rechab and Baanah, go, and come in at the heat of the day unto the house of Ish-Bosheth, and he is lying down -- the lying down of noon;6 and thither they have come, unto the midst of the house, taking wheat, and they smite him unto the fifth [rib], and Rechab and Baanah his brother have escaped;7 yea, they come in to the house, and he is lying on his bed, in the inner part of his bed-chamber, and they smite him, and put him to death, and turn aside his head, and they take his head, and go the way of the plain all the night,8 and bring in the head of Ish-Bosheth unto David in Hebron, and say unto the king, `Lo, the head of Ish-Bosheth, son of Saul, thine enemy, who sought thy life; and Jehovah doth give to my lord the king vengeance this day, of Saul and of his seed.`9 And David answereth Rechab and Baanah his brother, sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, and saith to them, `Jehovah liveth, who hath redeemed my soul out of all adversity,10 when one is declaring to me, saying, Lo, Saul is dead, and he was as a bearer of tidings in his own eyes, then I take hold on him, and slay him in Ziklag, instead of my giving to him [for] the tidings.11 Also -- when wicked men have slain the righteous man in his own house, on his bed; and now, do not I require his blood of your hand, and have taken you away from the earth?`12 And David commandeth the young men, and they slay them, and cut off their hands and their feet, and hang [them] over the pool in Hebron, and the head of Ish-Bosheth they have taken, and bury [it] in the burying-place of Abner in Hebron.