¹And when Saul's son heard that Abner was dead in Hebron, his hands were feeble, and all the Israelites were troubled.

¹ولما سمع ابن شاول ان ابنير قد مات في حبرون ارتخت يداه وارتاع جميع اسرائيل.

²And Saul's son had two men that were captains of bands: the name of the one was Baanah, and the name of the other Rechab, the sons of Rimmon a Beerothite, of the children of Benjamin: (for Beeroth also was reckoned to Benjamin.

²وكان لابن شاول رجلان رئيسا غزاة اسم الواحد بعنة واسم الآخر ركاب ابنا رمّون البئيروتي من بني بنيامين. لان بئيروت حسبت لبنيامين.

³And the Beerothites fled to Gittaim, and were sojourners there until this day.)

³وهرب البئيروتيون الى جتّايم وتغربوا هناك الى هذا اليوم.

⁴And Jonathan, Saul's son, had a son that was lame of his feet. He was five years old when the tidings came of Saul and Jonathan out of Jezreel, and his nurse took him up, and fled: and it came to pass, as she made haste to flee, that he fell, and became lame. And his name was Mephibosheth.

⁴وكان ليوناثان بن شاول ابن مضروب الرجلين. كان ابن خمس سنين عند مجيء خبر شاول ويوناثان من يزرعيل فحملته مربيته وهربت ولما كانت مسرعة لتهرب وقع وصار اعرج واسمه مفيبوشث.

⁵And the sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, Rechab and Baanah, went, and came about the heat of the day to the house of Ishbosheth, who lay on a bed at noon.

⁵وسار ابنا رمّون البئيروتي ركاب وبعنة ودخلا عند حر النهار الى بيت ايشبوشث وهو نائم نومة الظهيرة.

⁶And they came thither into the midst of the house, as though they would have fetched wheat; and they smote him under the fifth rib: and Rechab and Baanah his brother escaped.

⁶فدخلا الى وسط البيت لياخذا حنطة وضرباه في بطنه ثم افلت ركاب وبعنة اخوه.

⁷For when they came into the house, he lay on his bed in his bedchamber, and they smote him, and slew him, and beheaded him, and took his head, and gat them away through the plain all night.

⁷فعند دخولهما البيت كان هو مضطجعا على سريره في مخدع نومه فضرباه وقتلاه وقطعا راسه واخذا راسه وسارا في طريق العربة الليل كله.

⁸And they brought the head of Ishbosheth unto David to Hebron, and said to the king, Behold the head of Ishbosheth the son of Saul thine enemy, which sought thy life; and the LORD hath avenged my lord the king this day of Saul, and of his seed.

⁸وأتيا براس ايشبوشث الى داود الى حبرون وقالا للملك هوذا راس ايشبوشث بن شاول عدوك الذي كان يطلب نفسك. وقد اعطى الرب لسيدي الملك انتقاما في هذا اليوم من شاول ومن نسله

⁹And David answered Rechab and Baanah his brother, the sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, and said unto them, As the LORD liveth, who hath redeemed my soul out of all adversity,

⁹فاجاب داود ركاب وبعنة اخاه ابني رمّون البئيروتي وقال لهما. حيّ هو الرب الذي فدى نفسي من كل ضيق

¹⁰When one told me, saying, Behold, Saul is dead, thinking to have brought good tidings, I took hold of him, and slew him in Ziklag, who thought that I would have given him a reward for his tidings:

¹⁰ان الذي اخبرني قائلا هوذا قد مات شاول وكان في عيني نفسه كمبشر قبضت عليه وقتلته في صقلغ. ذلك اعطيته بشارة.

¹¹How much more, when wicked men have slain a righteous person in his own house upon his bed? shall I not therefore now require his blood of your hand, and take you away from the earth?

¹¹فكم بالحري اذا كان رجلان باغيان يقتلان رجلا صدّيقا في بيته على سريره. فالآن اما اطلب دمه من ايديكما وانزعكما من الارض.

¹²And David commanded his young men, and they slew them, and cut off their hands and their feet, and hanged them up over the pool in Hebron. But they took the head of Ishbosheth, and buried it in the sepulchre of Abner in Hebron.

¹²وأمر داود الغلمان فقتلوهما وقطعوا ايديهما وارجلهما وعلقوهما على البركة في حبرون. واما راس ايشبوشث فأخذوه ودفنوه في قبر ابنير في حبرون