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-bo'sheth, Saul's son, heard that Abner had died at Hebron, his courage failed, and all Israel was dismayed.
2 Now Saul's son had two men who were captains of raiding bands; the name of the one was Ba'anah, and the name of the other Rechab, sons of Rimmon a man of Benjamin from Be-er'oth (for Be-er'oth also is reckoned to Benjamin;
3 the Be-er'othites fled to Gitta'im, and have been sojourners there to this day).
4 Jonathan, the son of Saul, had a son who was crippled 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, as she fled in her haste, he fell, and became lame. And his name was Mephib'osheth.
5 Now the sons of Rimmon the Be-er'othite, Rechab and Ba'anah, set out, and about the heat of the day they came to the house of Ish-bo'sheth, as he was taking his noonday rest.
6 And behold, the doorkeeper of the house had been cleaning wheat, but she grew drowsy and slept; so Rechab and Ba'anah his brother slipped in.
7 When they came into the house, as he lay on his bed in his bedchamber, they smote him, and slew him, and beheaded him. They took his head, and went by the way of the Arabah all night,
8 and brought the head of Ish-bo'sheth to David at Hebron. And they said to the king, "Here is the head of Ish-bo'sheth, the son of Saul, your enemy, who sought your life; the LORD has avenged my lord the king this day on Saul and on his offspring."
9 But David answered Rechab and Ba'anah his brother, the sons of Rimmon the Be-er'othite, "As the LORD lives, who has redeemed my life out of every adversity,
10 when one told me, `Behold, Saul is dead,' and thought he was bringing good news, I seized him and slew him at Ziklag, which was the reward I gave him for his news.
11 How much more, when wicked men have slain a righteous man in his own house upon his bed, shall I not now require his blood at your hand, and destroy you from the earth?"
12 And David commanded his young men, and they killed them, and cut off their hands and feet, and hanged them beside the pool at Hebron. But they took the head of Ish-bo'sheth, and buried it in the tomb of Abner at Hebron.