1Když se Saulův syn Iš-bošet[1] doslechl, že Abner v Hebronu zemřel, ztratil odvahu a také celý Izrael se zhrozil.2Saulův syn měl tenkrát dva velitele úderných oddílů. Jeden se jmenoval Baana a druhý Rechab; byli to synové Rimona Beerotského ze synů Benjamínových. Také Beerot se totiž počítá k Benjamínovi;3Beerotští uprchli do Gitajim a od té doby tam pobývají až dodnes.4(Saulův syn Jonatan měl syna chromého na nohy. Tenkrát, když z Jizreelu dorazila zpráva o Saulovi a Jonatanovi, mu bylo pět let. Jeho chůva ho vzala do náruče a dala se na útěk. Jak ale pospíchala, upustila ho a on zchroml. Jmenoval se Mefibošet.)5Synové Rimona Beerotského, Rechab a Baana, se vypravili do Iš-bošetova domu. Dorazili tam kolem poledne, v době, kdy kvůli horku odpočíval.6Rechab a jeho bratr Baana vstoupili do domu, jako by si šli pro pšenici, bodli ho do břicha a utekli.7Když totiž vnikli do domu, spal na lůžku ve své ložnici. Ubodali ho k smrti, uřízli mu hlavu a šli s ní celou noc přes pláň Arava,8až ji přinesli k Davidovi do Hebronu. „Zde je hlava Iš-bošeta, syna Saulova, tvého nepřítele, který ti usiloval o život,“ oznámili králi. „Hospodin dnes našemu pánu a králi dopřál pomstu nad Saulem a jeho potomstvem.“9David na to Rechabovi a jeho bratru Baanovi, synům Rimona Beerotského, řekl: „Jakože je živ Hospodin, který mě vykoupil z každého soužení:10Muž, který mi v Ciklagu ohlásil, že Saul je mrtev, si myslel, že nese dobré zprávy. Já jsem ho ale za tu zprávu odměnil tak, že jsem ho dal zabít.[2]11Čím spíše když nějací zlosynové zavraždí nevinného člověka v jeho vlastním domě na jeho vlastním lůžku? Nemám snad teď jeho krev žádat po vás a sprovodit vás ze světa?!“12Nato David rozkázal svým mládencům, aby je zabili. Usekali jim ruce i nohy a pověsili je u nádrže v Hebronu. Iš-bošetovu hlavu pak vzali a pohřbili ji v Hebronu do Abnerova hrobu.
1When Ish-bosheth, Saul’s son, heard that Abner had died at Hebron, his courage failed, and all Israel was dismayed. (Ezd 4,4; Iz 13,7; Jr 6,24)2Now Saul’s son had two men who were captains of raiding bands; the name of the one was Baanah, and the name of the other Rechab, sons of Rimmon a man of Benjamin from Beeroth (for Beeroth also is counted part of Benjamin; (Jz 18,25)3the Beerothites fled to Gittaim and have been sojourners there to this day). (1S 31,7; Neh 11,33)4Jonathan, the son of Saul, had a son who was crippled in his feet. He was five years old when the news about Saul and Jonathan came from Jezreel, and his nurse took him up and fled, and as she fled in her haste, he fell and became lame. And his name was Mephibosheth. (1S 29,1; 1S 29,11; 2S 9,3; 2S 9,6)5Now the sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, Rechab and Baanah, set out, and about the heat of the day they came to the house of Ish-bosheth as he was taking his noonday rest.6And they came into the midst of the house as if to get wheat, and they stabbed him in the stomach. Then Rechab and Baanah his brother escaped.[1] (2S 2,23)7When they came into the house, as he lay on his bed in his bedroom, they struck him and put him to death and beheaded him. They took his head and went by the way of the Arabah all night, (Dt 1,1; 2S 2,29)8and brought the head of Ish-bosheth to David at Hebron. And they said to the king, “Here is the head of Ish-bosheth, the son of Saul, your enemy, who sought your life. The Lord has avenged my lord the king this day on Saul and on his offspring.” (1S 19,10; 1S 23,15)9But David answered Rechab and Baanah his brother, the sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, “As the Lord lives, who has redeemed my life out of every adversity, (Rt 3,13; 1Kr 1,29)10when one told me, ‘Behold, Saul is dead,’ and thought he was bringing good news, I seized him and killed him at Ziklag, which was the reward I gave him for his news. (2S 1,4; 2S 1,15)11How much more, when wicked men have killed a righteous man in his own house on his bed, shall I not now require his blood at your hand and destroy you from the earth?” (Gn 9,5)12And David commanded his young men, and they killed them and cut off their hands and feet and hanged them beside the pool at Hebron. But they took the head of Ish-bosheth and buried it in the tomb of Abner at Hebron. (2S 3,32)