1When Ish-bosheth, Saul’s son, heard that Abner had died at Hebron, his courage failed, and all Israel was dismayed. (Ezr 4:4; Isa 13:7; Jer 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; (Jos 18:25)3the Beerothites fled to Gittaim and have been sojourners there to this day). (1Sa 31:7; Ne 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. (1Sa 29:1; 1Sa 29:11; 2Sa 9:3; 2Sa 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] (2Sa 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, (De 1:1; 2Sa 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.” (1Sa 19:10; 1Sa 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, (Ru 3:13; 1Ki 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. (2Sa 1:4; 2Sa 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?” (Ge 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. (2Sa 3:32)
1وقتی ايشبوشت پادشاه شنيد كه ابنير در حبرون كشته شده است، هراسان گشت و تمام قومش نيز مضطرب شدند.2-3ايشبوشت دو فرمانده سپاه داشت به نامهای بعنه و ريكاب. آنها پسران رمون بئيروتی از قبيلهٔ بنيامين بودند. (با اينكه اهالی بئيروت به جتايم فرار كرده و در آنجا ساكن شده بودند، ولی باز جزو قبيلهٔ بنيامين محسوب میشدند.)4(در ضمن، شائول نوهٔ لنگی داشت به نام مفيبوشت كه پسر يوناتان بود. هنگامی كه شائول و يوناتان در جنگ يزرعيل كشته شدند، مفيبوشت پنج ساله بود. وقتی خبر مرگ شائول و يوناتان به پايتخت رسيد، دايهٔ مفيبوشت، او را برداشت و فرار كرد. ولی هنگام فرار به زمين خورد و بچه از دستش افتاد و پايش لنگ شد.)5يک روز ظهر، موقعی كه ايشبوشت پادشاه خوابيده بود، ريكاب و بعنه وارد خانهٔ او شدند.6-7آنها به بهانهٔ گرفتن يک كيسه گندم به كاخ او آمدند و مخفيانه به اتاق پادشاه رفتند. سپس او را كشته، سرش را از تنش جدا كردند و آن را با خود برداشته، از راه بيابان گريختند. آنها تمام شب در راه بودند8تا به حبرون رسيدند. ريكاب و بعنه سر بريده شدهٔ ايشبوشت را به داوود تقديم كرده، گفتند: «اين سر ايشبوشت، پسر دشمنت شائول است كه میخواست تو را بكشد. امروز خداوند انتقام تو را از شائول و تمام خاندان او گرفته است!»9اما داوود جواب داد: «به خداوند زنده كه مرا از دست دشمنانم نجات داد، قسم10كه من آن شخصی را كه خبر كشته شدن شائول را به صقلغ آورد و گمان میكرد كه مژده میآورد، كشتم. آن مژدگانیای بود كه به او دادم.11حال، آيا سزای مردان شروری كه شخص بیگناهی را در خانهٔ خود و در رختخوابش به قتل رساندهاند، كمتر از اين بايد باشد؟ بدانيد كه شما را نيز خواهم كشت.»12بعد داوود به افرادش دستور داد كه هر دو را بكشند. پس آنها را كشتند و دستها و پاهايشان را بريده، بدنهايشان را در كنار بركهٔ حبرون به دار آويختند؛ اما سر ايشبوشت را گرفته، در قبر ابنير در حبرون دفن كردند.