New English [1970], THE NEW ENGLISH BIBLE (OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS; CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS, CAMBRIDGE) [word count] [B16000].
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1 When Saul's son Ishbosheth note heard that Abner had been killed in
Hebron, his courage failed him and all Israel was dismayed.
2 Now
Ishbosheth had note two officers, who were captains of raiding parties, and
whose names were Baanah and Rechab; they were Benjamites, sons of
Rimmon of Beeroth, Beeroth being reckoned part of Benjamin;
3 but the
Beerothites had fled to Gittaim, where they have lived ever since.
4 (Saul's son Jonathan had a son lame in both feet. He was five years
old when word of the death of Saul and Jonathan came from Jezreel.
His nurse had picked him up and fled, but in her hurry to get away he
fell and was crippled. His name was Mephibosheth.)
5 Rechab and Baanah, the sons of Rimmon of Beeroth, came to the
house of Ishbosheth in the heat of the day and went in, while he was
taking his midday rest.
6 Now the door-keeper had been sifting wheat,
but she had grown drowsy and fallen asleep, so Rechab and his brother
Baanah crept in, note
7 found their way to the room where he was asleep on
the bed, and struck him dead. They cut off his head and took it with
them, and, making their way along the Arabah all night, came to
Hebron.
8 They brought Ishbosheth's head to David at Hebron and said
to the king, ‘Here is the head of Ishbosheth son of Saul, your enemy,
who sought your life. The Lord has avenged your majesty today on
Saul and on his family.’
9 David answered Rechab and his brother
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David's rule at Hebron
Baanah, the sons of Rimmon of Beeroth, with an oath: ‘As the Lord
lives, who has rescued me from all my troubles!
10 I seized the man who
brought me word that Saul was dead and thought it good news;
I killed him in Ziklag, and that was how I rewarded him for his news.
11 How much more when ruffians have killed an innocent man on his
bed in his own house? Am I not to take vengeance on you now for the
blood you have shed, and rid the earth of you?’
12 David gave the word,
and the young men killed them; they cut off their hands and feet and
hung them up beside the pool in Hebron, but the head of Ishbosheth
they took and buried in Abner's tomb at Hebron.
New English [1970], THE NEW ENGLISH BIBLE (OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS; CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS, CAMBRIDGE) [word count] [B16000].
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