1 And when Saul’s son heard that Abner was dead in Hebron, his hands were feeble, and all the Israelites were troubled. 2 And Saul’s son had two men that were captains of bands: the name of the one was Baanah, and the name of the other Rechab, the sons of Rimmon a Beerothite, of the children of Benjamin: (for Beeroth also was reckoned to Benjamin: 3 And the Beerothites fled to Gittaim, and were sojourners there until this day.) 4 And Jonathan, Saul’s son, had a son that was lame of his feet. He was five years old when the tidings came of Saul and Jonathan out of Jezreel, and his nurse took him up, and fled: and it came to pass, 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, went, and came about the heat of the day to the house of Ish-bosheth, who lay on a bed at noon. 6 And they came thither into the midst of the house, as though they would have fetched wheat; and they smote him under the fifth rib: and Rechab and Baanah his brother escaped. 7 For when they came into the house, he lay on his bed in his bedchamber, and they smote him, and slew him, and beheaded him, and took his head, and gat them away through the plain all night. 8 And they brought the head of Ish-bosheth unto David to Hebron, and said to the king, Behold the head of Ish-bosheth the son of Saul thine enemy, which sought thy life; and the LORD hath avenged my lord the king this day of Saul, and of his seed.
9 And David answered Rechab and Baanah his brother, the sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, and said unto them, As the LORD liveth, who hath redeemed my soul out of all adversity, 10 When one told me, saying, Behold, Saul is dead, thinking to have brought good tidings, I took hold of him, and slew him in Ziklag, who thought that I would have given him a reward for his tidings: 11 How much more, when wicked men have slain a righteous person in his own house upon his bed? shall I not therefore now require his blood of your hand, and take you away from the earth? 12 And David commanded his young men, and they slew them, and cut off their hands and their feet, and hanged them up over the pool in Hebron. But they took the head of Ish-bosheth, and buried it in the sepulchre of Abner in Hebron.
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。