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Chapter Four And when Saul's son heard
that Abner was dead in Hebron,

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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.

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The name of the one was Baanah,
and the name of the other Rechab,

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the sons of Rimen a Beorothite,
of the children of Benjamin.

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For Beoroth also was reckoned a Benjamin.

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And the Beorothites fled to Gittaeum,
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.

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He was five years old when the tidings
came of Saul and Jonathan out of Jezreel.

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And his nurse took him up and fled.

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And it came to pass, as she made haste to
flee, that he fell and became lame.

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And his name was Mephibosheth.

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And the sons of Rimen the Beorothite,
Rechab and Baanah, went and came about the

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heat of the day to the house of
Ishbosheth, 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

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fetched wheat.

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And they smote him under the fifth rib.

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And Rechab and Baanah, his brother,
escaped.

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For when they came into the house,
he lay on his bed in his bedchamber.

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And they smote him, and slew him,
and beheaded him, and took his head,

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and gaped them away through the plain all
night.

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And they brought the head of Ishbosheth
unto David, to Hebron, and said to the

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king, Behold the head of Ishbosheth,
the son of Saul, thine enemy, which sought

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thy life.

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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 Baanah,
his brother, the sons of Rimen the

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Beorothite, and said unto them,
As the Lord liveth, who hath redeemed my

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soul out of all adversity?

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When one told me, saying, Behold,
Saul is dead, thinking to have brought

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good tidings, I took hold of him,
and slew him in Ziklag.

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Who thought that I would have given him a
reward for his tidings?

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How much more, when wicked men have slain
a righteous person in his own house upon

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his bed?

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Shall I not therefore now acquire his
blood of your hand, and take you away from

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the earth?

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And David commanded his young men,
and they slew them, and cut off their

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hands and their feet, and hanged them up
over the pool in Hebron.

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But they took the head of Ish-bosheth,
and buried it in the sepulchre of Abner in Hebron.