﻿2 Samuel.
Chapter 4.
When Saul’s son heard that Abner had died in Hebron, his hands grew weak, and all Israel was terrified. 
Saul’s son had two men who were commanders of raiding bands. One was named Baanah and the other Rechab. They were sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, from Benjamin, for Beeroth was also counted as part of Benjamin. 
The Beerothites had fled to Gittaim, where they have lived as resident foreigners to this day. 
Jonathan son of Saul had a son who was lame in both feet. He was five years old when the news about Saul and Jonathan came from Jezreel. His nurse picked him up and fled, but as she hurried to flee, he fell and became lame. His name was Mephibosheth. 
Rechab and Baanah, the sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, set out and came to Ish-bosheth’s house in the heat of the day, while he was lying down for his midday rest. 
They went into the interior of the house as though to get wheat and struck him in the belly. Then Rechab and his brother Baanah escaped. 
They had entered the house while he was lying on his bed in his bedroom. They struck him, killed him and cut off his head. They took his head and walked along the Arabah road all night. 
They brought Ish-bosheth’s head to David at Hebron and said to the king, “Here is the head of Ish-bosheth son of Saul, your enemy who sought your life. Today the LORD has given my lord the king vengeance on Saul and his descendants.” 
David answered Rechab and his brother Baanah, the sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, “As the LORD lives, who has redeemed my life from every distress, 
when a man told me, ‘Saul is dead,’ thinking he brought good news, I seized him and killed him in Ziklag. That was the reward I gave him for his news. 
How much more when wicked men have killed a righteous man in his own house, on his bed! Shall I not now require his blood from your hands and remove you from the earth?” 
David commanded his young men, and they killed them. They cut off their hands and feet and hung them up by the pool in Hebron. But they took Ish-bosheth’s head and buried it in Abner’s tomb in Hebron. 
