1 When Saul’s son heard that Abner had died in Hebron, his hands fell limp, and all Israel was dismayed.

2 Now Saul’s son had two men who were commanders of troops. The name of one was Baanah and the name of the other Rechab, the sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, of the sons of Benjamin. (For Beeroth also was part of Benjamin,

3 because the Beerothites fled to Gittaim and are sojourning there to this day.)

4 And Jonathan, Saul’s son, had a son who was lame in his feet. He was five years old when the news about Saul and Jonathan came from Jezreel; and his nurse took him up and fled. And it happened, as she made haste to flee, that he fell and became lame. And his name was Mephibosheth.

5 And the sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, Rechab and Baanah, set out and came at the heat of the day to the house of Ishbosheth, who was lying on his bed at noon.

6 And when they had come there, into the middle of the house, as though carrying wheat, they stabbed him in the stomach. And Rechab and Baanah his brother escaped.

7 Now when they came into the house, he was lying on his bed in his bedroom; then they struck him and killed him, beheaded him and took his head, and were all night escaping through the plain.

8 And they brought the head of Ishbosheth to David at Hebron, and said to the king, Behold, the head of Ishbosheth, the son of Saul your enemy, who had sought your life. Jehovah has requited vengeance for my lord the king this day upon Saul and his seed.

9 But David answered Rechab and Baanah his brother, the sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, and said to them, As Jehovah lives, who has redeemed my soul from all distress,

10 when someone told me, saying, Behold, Saul is dead, thinking to have brought good news, I took him and killed him in Ziklag; the reward I gave him for his news.

11 How much more, when wicked men have killed a righteous man in his own house on his bed? Therefore, shall I not now require his blood at your hand and remove you from the earth?

12 And David commanded his young men, and they slew them, cut off their hands and feet, and hung them by the pool in Hebron. But they took the head of Ishbosheth and buried it in the tomb of Abner at Hebron.

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 dum Baena, 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 Jezreel, 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 Baena, e entraram em casa de Isbosete no maior calor do dia, estando ele deitado a dormir, ao meio-dia. 6 E ali entraram até o meio da casa, como que vindo tomar trigo, e o feriram na quinta costela: e Recabe e Baena, seu irmão, escaparam. 7 Porque entraram na sua casa, estando ele na cama deitado na sua recâmara, 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 Isbosete a Davi, a Hebrom, e disseram ao rei: Eis aqui a cabeça de Isbosete, filho de Saul, teu inimigo, que te procurava a morte: assim o Senhor vingou hoje ao rei meu senhor de Saul e da sua semente. 9 Porém Davi, respondendo a Recabe e a Baena, seu irmão, filhos de Rimom, o beerotita, disse-lhes: Vive o Senhor que remiu a minha alma de toda a angústia, 10 Pois se àquele que me trouxe novas, dizendo: Eis que Saul morto é, parecendo-lhe porém aos seus olhos que era como quem trazia boas novas, eu logo lancei mão dele, e o matei em Siclague, cuidando ele que eu por isso lhe desse alvíssaras; 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 mancebos que os matassem: e cortaram-lhes os pés e as mãos, e os penduraram sobre o tanque de Hebrom: tomaram porém a cabeça de Isbosete, e a sepultaram na sepultura de Abner, em Hebrom.