2Samuel:4
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And when Saul '
s son heard that Abner was dead in Hebron ,
his hands were feeble ,
and all the Israelites were troubled .
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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 :
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And the Beerothites fled to Gittaim ,
and were sojourners there until this day .)
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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 .
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And the sons of Rimmon the Beerothite ,
Rechab and Baanah ,
went ,
and came about the heat of the day to the house of Ishbosheth ,
who lay on a bed at noon .
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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 .
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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 .
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And they brought the head of Ishbosheth unto David to Hebron ,
and said to the king ,
Behold the head of Ishbosheth 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 .
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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 ,
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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 :
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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 ?
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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 Ishbosheth ,
and buried it in the sepulchre of Abner in Hebron .