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4:1 The murder of Iysh-Boshet
4 When Sha’ul’s son Iysh-Boshet heard that Abner had been killed in Hebron, he lost courage and all Israel was horrified. 2 He had two men who were leaders of raiding parties. They were Rimmon’s sons Baanah and Rekav from Beerot in the Benyamite region, 3 but the people from Beerot had fled to Gittaim where they’ve stayed until now.
4 (Sha’ul’s son Yonatan had a son named Mefiboshet. He was five years old when the report about Sha’ul and Yonatan’s death came from Yezreel. Mefiboshet’s nanny picked him up to run to safety, but in her hurry he fell and became crippled in his legs.)[ref]
5 One day, Baanah and Rekav (the sons of Rimmon from Beerot) walked to Iysh-boshet’s house, arriving in the middle of the day when he was taking a nap.6-7 6-7They entered the middle of the house as if getting wheat, then entered the inner room where @Iysh-Boshet was on the bed. They struck him in the body, killing him, then they cut off his head. Then Rekav and Baanah took the head and escaped, and walked all night through the Arabah. 8 They took Iysh-Boshet’s head to David at Hebron and told the king, “Look, here’s the head of Ishbosheth, the son of your enemy Sha’ul who tried to kill you. Today Yahweh’s given vengeance to my master the king against Sha’ul and his descendants.”
9 Then David answered Rekav and his brother Baanah (the sons of Rimmon from Beerot), “As Yahweh lives, having delivered my life from every distress, 10 when the messenger came to Tsiklag thinking he was bringing me good news and told me that Sha’ul was dead, I had him seized and executed.[ref] 11 Now how much more when wicked men have killed an innocent man on his bed in his own house. Shouldn’t I avenge you two for his murder and remove you from the earth?” 12 Then David commanded some of the young men and they killed the two brothers and cut of their hands and feet and hung them[fn] beside the Hebron pool, but they took Iysh-Boshet’s head and buried it there in Hebron in Abner’s tomb.
4:12 It’s ambiguous in the Hebrew whether the hands and feet were strung up, or the actual bodies.
2Sam 9:3:
3 “Is there anyone from Sha’ul’s family who’s still alive?” the king asked. “If so, I’d like to show God’s kindness to them.”[ref]
“Yes, There’s still one of Yonatan’s sons alive,” Tsiva told the king. “He’s crippled in both legs.”
2Sam 1:1-16:
1:1 David learns about Sha’ul’s death
1 After David returned from slaughtering the Amalekites, he stayed in Tsiklag for two days. (King Sha’ul was dead by this time.) 2 Then on the third day, wow, a man came from Sha’ul’s camp. He had torn clothes and dirt on his head, and when he got to David he fell onto his knees and bowed low. 3 “Where have you come from?” David asked him.
“I was in Israel’s camp, but managed to escape.” he replied. 4 “Why? What happened?” David demanded. “Tell me, please,”
“Our people fled from the battle,” the man said. “Many fell and died. Even Sha’ul and his son Yonatan died.”
5 “How do you know that Sha’ul and Yonatan died?” David asked the young man who’d brought the news.
6 “I happened to be on Mt. Gilboa,” the young man replied, “and listen, Sha’ul was leaning on his spear. Then wow, the chariots and the masters of the chariot horses overtook him,[ref] 7 and he turned around and saw me. He called me and I answered, ‘Here I am.’ 8 ‘Who are you?’ he asked. ‘I’m an Amalekite,’ I told him. 9 Then he said to me, ‘Please, come over here and kill me, because although I’m still alive, the pain is unbearable.’ 10 So I stood over him and killed him, because I knew that with those wounds, he wouldn’t live. Then I took the crown off his head and the bracelet on his arm, and I brought them here to you, my master.”
11 Then David pulled at his clothes with his hands and tore them, and all the men with him did the same, 12 and they mourned and wept and fasted until the evening for Sha’ul and for his son Yonatan, and for Yahweh’s people, because many Israelis had been killed.
13 Then David asked the young man who’d brought the news, “Where are you from?”
“I’m a foreigner’s son,” he replied, “an Amalekite.” 14 “How come you weren’t afraid to kill Yahweh’s anointed king with your own hands?” David asked him. 15 Then David called to one of his young men, “Come over here and execute him.” So he struck him, and he died. 16 “Your blood’s on your own head,” David told the Amalekite, “because you admitted in your own words that you, yourself killed Yahweh’s anointed one.”