1 When Saul’s son heard that Abner was dead in Hebron, his hands became feeble, and all the Israelites were troubled. 2 Saul’s son had two men who were captains of raiding bands. The name of one was Baanah and the name of the other Rechab, the sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, of the children of Benjamin (for Beeroth also is considered a part of Benjamin; 3 and the Beerothites fled to Gittaim, and have lived as foreigners there until today).

4 Now Jonathan, Saul’s son, had a son who was lame in his feet. He was five years old when the news came about Saul and Jonathan out of Jezreel; and his nurse picked him up and fled. As she hurried to flee, he fell and became lame. His name was Mephibosheth.

5 The sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, Rechab and Baanah, went out and came at about the heat of the day to the house of Ishbosheth as he took his rest at noon. 6 They came there into the middle of the house as though they would have fetched wheat, and they struck him in the body; and Rechab and Baanah his brother escaped. 7 Now when they came into the house as he lay on his bed in his bedroom, they struck him, killed him, beheaded him, and took his head, and went by the way of the Arabah all night. 8 They brought the head of Ishbosheth to David to Hebron, and said to the king, "Behold, the head of Ishbosheth, the son of Saul, your enemy, who sought your life! Yahweh has avenged my lord the king today of Saul and of his offspring."

9 David answered Rechab and Baanah his brother, the sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, and said to them, "As Yahweh lives, who has redeemed my soul out of all adversity, 10 when someone told me, ‘Behold, Saul is dead,’ thinking that he brought good news, I seized him and killed him in Ziklag, which was the reward I gave him for his news. 11 How much more, when wicked men have slain a righteous person in his own house on his bed, should I not now require his blood from your hand, and rid the earth of you?" 12 David commanded his young men, and they killed them, cut off their hands and their feet, and hanged them up beside the pool in Hebron. But they took the head of Ishbosheth and buried it in Abner’s grave 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。