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

¹Keď potom počul syn Saulov, že zomrel Abner v Hebrone, klesly jeho ruky, a celý Izrael sa predesil.

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.

²A syn Saulov mal dvoch mužov, veliteľov čiat; jednému bolo meno Baana, a meno druhému bolo Rechab. Boli to synovia Rimmona Beerótskeho, zo synov Benjaminových. Lebo aj Beerót sa počíta k Benjaminovi.

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

³A Beeróťania boli utiekli do Gittaima a pohostínili a pohostínia tam až do tohoto dňa.

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.

⁴A Jonatán, syn Saulov, mal syna chromého na nohy. Päť rokov mal, keď prišla zvesť o Saulovi a Jonatánovi z Jezreela. Vtedy ho vzala jeho chôva a utekala. A stalo sa, keď sa ponáhľala utekajúc, že padol a okrivel. A bolo mu meno Mefibóšet.

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.

⁵A odíduc synovia Rimmona Beerótskeho, Rechab a Baana, vošli, keď bolo horúco na deň, do domu Iš-bóšetovho. A on ležal na posteli, jako mal obyčaj, cez poludnie.

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.

⁶A vošli ta, až doprostred domu, jako keby boli chceli brať obilie, a bodli ho do brucha. A Rechab a Baana, jeho brat, utiekli.

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.

⁷Lebo keď boli vošli do domu, ležal na svojej posteli vo svojej ložnici, a tedy bodli ho a zabili a uťali jeho hlavu. A vzali jeho hlavu a išli cestou jordánskej doliny Araby celú noc.

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.

⁸A doniesli hlavu Iš-bóšetovu k Dávidovi do Hebrona a povedali kráľovi: Hľa, tu je hlava Iš-bóšeta, syna Saulovho, tvojho nepriateľa, ktorý hľadal tvoju dušu. Ale Hospodin pomstil dnes môjho pána kráľa na Saulovi a na jeho semene.

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,

⁹Ale Dávid odpovedal Rechabovi a Baanovi, jeho bratovi, synom Rimmona Beerótskeho, a riekol im: Ako že žije Hospodin, ktorý vykúpil moju dušu zo všetkých úzkostí,

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:

¹⁰že keď som toho, ktorý mi oznámil, hľa, vraj, zomrel Saul, a ktorému sa zdalo, že zvestuje radostnú zvesť, pochytil a zabil v Ciklagu, toho, ktorý chcel, aby som mu dal odmenu za jeho radostnú zvesť,

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?

¹¹tým skorej potrescem smrťou bezbožných mužov, ktorí zavraždili spravedlivého muža v jeho dome na jeho posteli! A tak teraz či by som nemal pohľadávať jeho krv z vašej ruky a nemal vás odpratať zo zeme?

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.

¹²A Dávid rozkázal mládencom, a zabili ich a poutínali im ruky i nohy a povesili ich pri rybníku v Hebrone a hlavu Iš-bóšetovu vzali a pochovali v hrobe Abnerovom v Hebrone.