2 Samuel 4
The Assassination of
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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 Ba'anah,
and the name of the other Rechab, the sons of Rimmon a Beer'othite,
of the children of Benjamin: (for Beer'oth also was reckoned to
Benjamin:
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and the Beer'othites fled to Gitta'im,
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. 2 Sam. 9.3 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 Mephib'osheth.
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And the sons of Rimmon the Beer'othite,
Rechab and Ba'anah, went, and came about the heat of the day to the
house of Ish-bo'sheth, 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 Ba'anah 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 Ish-bo'sheth
unto David to Hebron, and said to the king, Behold the head of
Ish-bo'sheth 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 Ba'anah his
brother, the sons of Rimmon the Beer'othite, 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: 2 Sam. 1.1-16
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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
Ish-bo'sheth, and buried it in the sepulchre of Abner in
Hebron.
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