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And when Saul's son[H1121]heard[H8085] that Abner[H74] was dead[H4191] in Hebron[H2275], his hands[H3027] were feeble[H7503], and all the Israelites[H3478] were troubled[H926].
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And Saul's son[H1121]had[H1961]two[H8147]men[H582] that were captains[H8269] of bands[H1416]: the name[H8034] of the one[H259] was Baanah[H1196], and the name[H8034] of the other[H8145]Rechab[H7394], the sons[H1121] of Rimmon[H7417] a Beerothite[H886], of the children[H1121] of Benjamin[H1144]:(for Beeroth[H881] also was reckoned[H2803] to Benjamin[H1144]:
3
And the Beerothites[H886]fled[H1272] to Gittaim[H1664], and were sojourners[H1481] there until this day[H3117].)
4
And Jonathan[H3083], Saul[H7586]'s son[H1121], had a son[H1121] that was lame[H5223] of his feet[H7272]. He was five[H2568]years[H8141]old[H1121] when the tidings[H8052]came[H935] of Saul[H7586] and Jonathan[H3083] out of Jezreel[H3157], and his nurse[H539] took him up[H5375], and fled[H5127]: and it came[H935] to pass, as she made haste[H2648] to flee[H5127], that he fell[H5307], and became lame[H6452]. And his name[H8034] was Mephibosheth[H4648].
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And the sons[H1121] of Rimmon[H7417] the Beerothite[H886], Rechab[H7394] and Baanah[H1196], went[H3212], and came[H935] about the heat[H2527] of the day[H3117] to the house[H1004] of Ishbosheth[H378], who lay[H7901] on a bed[H4904] at noon[H6672].
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And they came thither[H935] into the midst[H8432] of the house[H1004], as though they would have fetched[H3947]wheat[H2406]; and they smote[H5221] him under the fifth[H2570] rib: and Rechab[H7394] and Baanah[H1196] his brother[H251]escaped[H4422].
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For when they came[H935] into the house[H1004], he lay[H7901] on his bed[H4296] in his bedchamber[H2315], and they smote[H5221] him, and slew[H4191] him, and beheaded[H5493] him, and took[H3947] his head[H7218], and gat them away[H3212]through[H1870] the plain[H6160] all night[H3915].
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And they brought[H935] the head[H7218] of Ishbosheth[H378] unto David[H1732] to Hebron[H2275], and said[H559] to the king[H4428], Behold the head[H7218] of Ishbosheth[H378] the son[H1121] of Saul[H7586] thine enemy[H341], which sought[H1245] thy life[H5315]; and the LORD[H3068]hath[H5414]avenged[H5360] my lord[H113] the king[H4428] this day[H3117] of Saul[H7586], and of his seed[H2233].
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And David[H1732]answered[H6030]Rechab[H7394] and Baanah[H1196] his brother[H251], the sons[H1121] of Rimmon[H7417] the Beerothite[H886], and said[H559] unto them, As the LORD[H3068]liveth[H2416], who hath redeemed[H6299] my soul[H5315] out of all adversity[H6869],
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When one told[H5046] me, saying[H559], Behold, Saul[H7586] is dead[H4191], thinking to have brought[H5869] good tidings[H1319], I took hold[H270] of him, and slew[H2026] him in Ziklag[H6860], who thought that I would have given[H5414] him a reward for his tidings[H1309]:
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How much more, when wicked[H7563]men[H582] have slain[H2026] a righteous[H6662]person[H376] in his own house[H1004] upon his bed?[H4904] shall I not therefore now require[H1245] his blood[H1818] of your hand[H3027], and take you away[H1197] from the earth?[H776]
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And David[H1732]commanded[H6680] his young men[H5288], and they slew[H2026] them, and cut off[H7112] their hands[H3027] and their feet[H7272], and hanged them up[H8518] over the pool[H1295] in Hebron[H2275]. But they took[H3947] the head[H7218] of Ishbosheth[H378], and buried[H6912] it in the sepulchre[H6913] of Abner[H74] in Hebron[H2275].