1 Quando Is-Bosete, filho de Saul, ouviu que Abner morrera em Hebrom, tornaram-se-lhe fracas as mãos, e todo o Israel ficou perturbado.

2 Tinha o filho de Saul a seu serviço dois capitães de salteadores, um dos quais se chamava Baaná e o outro Recabe, filhos de Rimom berotita, dos filhos de Benjamim (pois Beerote foi reputada pertencente a Benjamim:

3 e os berotitas fugiram a Gitaim, e ali têm peregrinado até o dia de hoje).

4 Ora Jônatas, filho de Saul, tinha um filho aleijado dos pés. Este era de cinco anos de idade, quando chegaram de Jezreel as novas de Saul e de Jônatas; a sua ama o tomou e fugiu e, apressando-se ela a fugir, caiu o menino e ficou coxo. O seu nome era Mefibosete.

5 Indo Recabe e Baaná, filhos de Rimom berotita, chegaram à casa de Is-Bosete no calor do dia, enquanto ele dormia a sesta.

6 Entraram ali no interior da casa, como os que levavam trigo, e feriram-no na barriga; Recabe e Baaná, seu irmão, escaparam.

7 Quando entraram na casa, estando ele deitado em seu leito no quarto de dormir, ferindo-o, mataram-no e, cortando-lhe a cabeça, tomaram-na e andaram a noite toda pelo caminho da Arabá.

8 Trouxeram a cabeça de Is-Bosete a Davi em Hebrom, e disseram ao rei: Eis a cabeça de Is-Bosete, filho de Saul, teu inimigo, que te procurava a morte; Jeová vingou hoje ao rei meu senhor de Saul e da sua semente.

9 Respondeu Davi a Recabe e a Baaná, seu irmão, filhos de Rimom berotita, e disse-lhes: Pela vida de Jeová que remiu a minha alma de toda a angústia,

10 se, aquele que me deu a nova de que era morto Saul, cuidando que me trazia uma boa nova, eu fiz prender e matei em Ziclague, e essa foi a recompensa que lhe dei;

11 quanto mais, quando homens malvados mataram a um homem justo na sua casa, sobre o seu leito, não requererei eu de vossas mãos o seu sangue, e não vos exterminarei da terra?

12 Deu Davi ordem aos seus mancebos; eles os mataram e lhes cortaram as mãos e os pés, e os penduraram junto ao tanque em Hebrom. Tomaram, porém, a cabeça de Is-Bosete, e a enterraram na sepultura de Abner em Hebrom.

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.