2Samuel:4

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* When Saul 's son heard that Abner had died in Hebron , he lost heart , and all Israel was troubled . * Now Saul 's son had two men who were captains of troops . 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 was part of Benjamin , * because the Beerothites fled to Gittaim and have been sojourners there until this day .) * Jonathan , Saul 's son , had a son who was lame 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 it happened , as she made haste to flee , that he fell and became lame . His name was Mephibosheth . * Then the sons of Rimmon the Beerothite , Rechab and Baanah , set out and came at about the heat of the day to the house of Ishbosheth , who was lying on his bed at noon . * And they came there , all the way into the house , as though to get wheat , and they stabbed him in the stomach . Then Rechab and Baanah his brother escaped . * For when they came into the house , he was lying on his bed in his bedroom ; then they struck him and killed him , beheaded him and took his head , and were all night escaping through the plain . * And they brought the head of Ishbosheth to David at Hebron , and said to the king , "Here is the head of Ishbosheth , the son of Saul your enemy , who sought your life ; and the LORD has avenged my lord the king this day of Saul and his descendants ." * But David answered Rechab and Baanah his brother , the sons of Rimmon the Beerothite , and said to them , "As the LORD lives , who has redeemed my life from all adversity , * when someone told me , saying , "Look , Saul is dead ,' thinking to have brought good news , I arrested him and had him executed in Ziklag--the one who thought I would give him a reward for his news . * How much more , when wicked men have killed a righteous person in his own house on his bed ? Therefore , shall I not now require his blood at your hand and remove you from the earth ?" * So David commanded his young men , and they executed them , cut off their hands and feet , and hanged them by the pool in Hebron . But they took the head of Ishbosheth and buried it in the tomb of Abner in Hebron .

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