Holy Bible
(King James Version)
Second
Samuel: Chapter 4
1. AND when Saul's son heard
that Abner was dead in Hebron, his hands were feeble, and all the
Israelites were troubled.
2. And Saul's son had two men that were captains of bands: the name of
the one was Ba-a-nah, and the name of the other Re-chab, the sons of
Rimmon a Beer-o-thite, of the children of Benjamin: (for Beeroth also
was reckoned to Benjamin.
3. And the Beer-o-thites fled to Git-ta-im, and were sojourners there
until this day.)
4. 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 Me-phib-o-sheth.
5. And the sons of Rimmon the Beer-o-thite, Re-chab and Ba-a-nah,
went, and came about the heat of the day to the house of Ish-both-eth,
who lay on a bed at noon.
6. 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
Re-chab and Ba-a-nah his brother escaped.
7. 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.
8. And they brought the head of Ish-bosh-eth 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.
9. And David answered Re-chab and Ba-a-nah his brother, the sons of
Rimmon the Beer-o-thite, and said unto them, As the LORD liveth, who
hath redeemed my soul out of all adversity,
10. 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:
11. 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?
12. 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-bosh-eth, and buried it in
the sepulchre of Abner in Hebron.
Apr. 18 Daily reading
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