2 Samuel 4 (NET)

2 Samuel 4:1¹When Ish Bosheth the son of Saul heard that Abner had died in Hebron, he was very disheartened, and all Israel was afraid.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

2 Samuel 4:2²Now Saul’s son had two men who were in charge of raiding units; one was named Baanah and the other Recab. They were sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, who was a Benjaminite. (Beeroth is regarded as belonging to Benjamin,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

2 Samuel 4:3³for the Beerothites fled to Gittaim and have remained there as resident foreigners until the present time.)Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

2 Samuel 4:4⁴Now Saul’s son Jonathan had a son who was crippled in both feet. He was five years old when the news about Saul and Jonathan arrived from Jezreel. His nurse picked him up and fled, but in her haste to get away, he fell and was injured. Mephibosheth was his name.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

2 Samuel 4:5⁵Now the sons of Rimmon the Beerothite—Recab and Baanah—went at the hottest part of the day to the home of Ish Bosheth, as he was enjoying his midday rest.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

2 Samuel 4:6⁶They entered the house under the pretense of getting wheat and mortally wounded him in the stomach. Then Recab and his brother Baanah escaped.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

2 Samuel 4:7⁷They had entered the house while Ish Bosheth was resting on his bed in his bedroom. They mortally wounded him and then cut off his head. Taking his head, they traveled on the way of the rift valley all that night.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

2 Samuel 4:8⁸They brought the head of Ish Bosheth to David in Hebron, saying to the king, “Look! The head of Ish Bosheth son of Saul, your enemy who sought your life! The Lord has granted vengeance to my lord the king this day against Saul and his descendants!”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

2 Samuel 4:9⁹David replied to Recab and his brother Baanah, the sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, “As surely as the Lord lives, who has delivered my life from all adversity,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

2 Samuel 4:10¹⁰when someone told me that Saul was dead—even though he thought he was bringing good news —I seized him and killed him in Ziklag. That was the good news I gave to him!Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

2 Samuel 4:11¹¹Surely when wicked men have killed an innocent man as he slept in his own house, should I not now require his blood from your hands and remove you from the earth?”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

2 Samuel 4:12¹²So David issued orders to the soldiers and they put them to death. Then they cut off their hands and feet and hung them near the pool in Hebron. But they took the head of Ish Bosheth and buried it in the tomb of Abner in Hebron.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s