# 2 Samuel 4

> Lumin Translation

Source: https://www.lumin.faith/read/2-samuel/4

Translated from Hebrew and Greek with AI, then checked for clarity and fidelity.

1. When Saul's son heard that Abner had died in Hebron, his hands slackened, and all Israel panicked.
2. Two men were captains of bands for Saul's son—one's name Baanah, the other's Rechab, sons of Rimmon the Beerothite from the sons of Benjamin, for Beeroth too is reckoned to Benjamin.
3. The Beerothites fled to Gittaim and have been sojourners there until this day.
4. Jonathan, Saul's son, had a lame-footed son who was five years old when word of Saul and Jonathan arrived from Jezreel, and his nurse lifted him and fled; as she hurried to escape, he fell and became lame, and his name was Mephibosheth.
5. Rechab and Baanah, sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, set out and arrived at Ish-bosheth's house in the heat of the day, as he lay on the bed at noon.
6. They came there into the middle of the house as if to take wheat and struck him at the fifth; Rechab and Baanah his brother escaped.
7. They entered the house where he lay on his bed in his bedroom, struck him and killed him, removed his head and took it, and went the way of the Arabah all night.
8. 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; Yahweh has granted vengeance to my lord the king today from Saul and his offspring."
9. David answered Rechab and Baanah his brother, the sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, and said to them, "As Yahweh lives, who has redeemed my life from all distress."
10. When a man told me, "Look, Saul is dead," considering himself a bearer of good news, I seized him and killed him in Ziklag, which was the reward I gave him for his tidings.
11. How much more, when wicked men killed a righteous man in his house on his bed? Will I not now require his blood from your hand and remove you from the earth?
12. David commanded the young men, and they killed them, cut off their hands and feet, and hung them up over the pool in Hebron. They took Ish-bosheth's head and buried it in Abner's grave in Hebron.

## Nearby chapters

[2 Samuel 3](https://www.lumin.faith/read/2-samuel/3.md)
[2 Samuel 5](https://www.lumin.faith/read/2-samuel/5.md)

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