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2 Samuel 4 :: Amplified Bible (AMP)

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Ish-bosheth Murdered

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When Saul’s son Ish-bosheth [king of Israel], heard that Abner had died in Hebron, he [fn]lost courage, and all Israel was horrified.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 4:2 - Saul’s son had two men who were commanders of [raiding] bands [of soldiers]. One was named Baanah and the other Rechab, the sons of Rimmon the Beerothite of the sons (tribe) of Benjamin (for Beeroth is also considered part of [the tribe of] Benjamin,

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 4:3 - and the Beerothites fled to Gittaim, and have been resident aliens there to this day).

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Jonathan, Saul’s son, had a son whose feet were crippled. He was five years old when the news [of the deaths] of Saul and Jonathan came from Jezreel. And the boy’s nurse picked him up and fled; but it happened that while she was hurrying to flee, he fell and became lame. His name was Mephibosheth.

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So the sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, Rechab and Baanah, left and came to the house of Ish-bosheth in the heat of the day while he was taking his midday rest.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 4:6 - They came into the interior of the house as if to get wheat [for the soldiers], and they struck him in the stomach. Then Rechab and Baanah his brother escaped [unnoticed].

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 4:7 - Now when they entered the house he was lying on his bed in his bedroom. They [not only] struck and killed him, [but] they also beheaded him. Then they took his head and traveled all night by way of the Arabah.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 4:8 - They brought the head of Ish-bosheth to David at Hebron, and said to the king, “Look, the head of Ish-bosheth the son of Saul, your enemy, who sought your life; thus the LORD has granted my lord the king vengeance this day on Saul and on his descendants.”

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David replied to Rechab and Baanah his brother, the sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, and said to them, “As the LORD lives, who has redeemed my life from every adversity,

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 4:10 - when a man told me, ‘Behold, Saul is dead,’ [fn]thinking that he was bringing good news, I seized and killed him in Ziklag, to reward him for his news.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 4:11 - “How much more, when wicked men have killed a righteous and just man in his own house on his bed, shall I not require his blood from your hand and remove you from the earth?”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 4:12 - So David commanded his young men, and they killed them and cut off their hands and feet and hung them beside the pool in Hebron. But they took Ish-bosheth’s head and buried it in Hebron in the tomb of Abner [his relative].
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Lit his hands went slack.
Lit as one who brings good news in his own eyes.
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