1Cuando Isboset hijo de Saúl supo que Abner había muerto en Hebrón, se acobardó, y sus partidarios se llenaron de temor.2Isboset tenía a su servicio a Baná y a Recab, que habían comandado bandas de ladrones. Baná y a Recab eran hijos de Rimón el berotita; por lo tanto eran benjaminitas, pues el pueblo de Berot era considerado como parte de la tribu de Benjamín, aunque sus habitantes habían huido a Guitayin, y se habían quedado viviendo allí.4(También había un nieto del rey Saúl llamado Mefiboset, hijo del príncipe Jonatán, que era lisiado de los pies. Tenía cinco años cuando Saúl y Jonatán murieron en Jezrel. Cuando esta mala noticia llegó a la capital, la niñera agarró a Mefiboset y huyó, pero se le cayó mientras corrían, y el niño quedó cojo).5Un día Recab y Baná, los hijos de Rimón el berotita, llegaron al hogar del rey Isboset. Era mediodía y este tomaba una siesta.6Entonces, con el pretexto de ir a sacar una bolsa de trigo, se metieron al cuarto donde dormía Isboset, lo mataron a puñaladas y le cortaron la cabeza. Luego anduvieron toda aquella noche por el Arabá, llevando consigo la cabeza de Isboset.8Al llegar a Hebrón, se la entregaron a David, al tiempo que le decían: ―¡Mire, mi rey! Esta es la cabeza de Isboset, el hijo de su enemigo Saúl, el que trató de matarlo. Hoy el SEÑOR le ha dado la venganza sobre el rey Saúl y toda su familia.9Pero David les contestó: ―¡Juro delante del SEÑOR, que me salvó de todos mis enemigos, que ustedes morirán!10La recompensa que le di a aquel que me dijo: “Saúl ha muerto”, pensando que me traía una buena noticia, fue apresarlo y hacerlo matar en Siclag.11Si eso hice con ese hombre, ¿creen ustedes que los voy a perdonar? ¡Ustedes pagarán con su propia vida el haber dado muerte a un hombre bueno, mientras dormía tranquilo en su casa! ¡Me vengaré de ustedes eliminándolos de este mundo!12David ordenó que les dieran muerte, y así lo hicieron. Les cortaron las manos y los pies y colgaron sus cuerpos cerca del pozo en Hebrón. Luego tomaron la cabeza de Isboset y la sepultaron en el sepulcro de Abner, en Hebrón.
English Standard Version
Ish-bosheth Murdered
1When Ish-bosheth, Saul’s son, heard that Abner had died at Hebron, his courage failed, and all Israel was dismayed.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;3the Beerothites fled to Gittaim and have been sojourners there to this day).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.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.*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,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.”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,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.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?”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.
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