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

¹In ko je slišal Isboset, Savlov sin, da je Abner mrtev v Hebronu, mu omahnejo roke, in ves Izrael se ustraši.

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.

²Imel pa je Savlov sin dva moža, poveljnika trum: enemu je bilo ime Baana, drugemu pa Rekab, sinova Rimona Berotčana, izmed sinov Benjaminovih (kajti Berot se tudi šteje k Benjaminu;

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

³bili so pa Berotčani bežali v Gitaim in so ondi prebivali do današnjega dne).

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.

⁴Jonatan pa, Savlov sin, je imel sina, hromega na nogah. Pet let je bil star, ko je prišla vest o Savlu in Jonatanu iz Jezreela; in njegova dojka ga je vzela in bežala, in ko je hitela, da ubeži, je padel in ohromel. In ime mu je bilo Mefiboset.

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.

⁵In sinova Rimona Berotčana, Rekab in Baana, sta šla in dospela, ko je bil dan najbolj vroč, v hišo Isbosetovo, ko je počival na postelji opoldne.

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.

⁶In stopita sredi hiše, kakor da bi hotela vzeti pšenice, in ga zabodeta pod rebra, in Rekab in Baana, brat njegov, zbežita.

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.

⁷Ko sta namreč prišla v hišo in je on ležal v spalnici svoji na postelji, ga udarita in umorita ter mu odsekata glavo, in vzameta glavo njegovo in bežita po poti nižine Arabe vso noč.

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.

⁸In prineseta glavo Isbosetovo Davidu v Hebron in rečeta kralju: Glej, glava Isboseta, sina Savlovega, tvojega sovražnika, ki ti je stregel po življenju! GOSPOD je danes maščeval gospoda mojega, kralja, nad Savlom in nad semenom njegovim.

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,

⁹David pa odgovori Rekabu in Baanu, bratu njegovemu, sinoma Rimona Berotčana, in jima reče: Kakor res živi GOSPOD, ki je odrešil dušo mojo vseh bridkosti:

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:

¹⁰ko mi je tisti oznanil, rekoč: Glej, Savel je mrtev! in je menil, da je vesela vest zame, pa sem ga prijel in umoril v Ziklagu ter mu dal s tem plačilo za vest njegovo:

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?

¹¹koliko bolj, ko sta dva brezbožneža umorila pravičnega moža v njegovi hiši na postelji njegovi! nimam li zdaj zahtevati krvi njegove iz vajinih rok in vaju potrebiti z zemlje?In David zapove mladeničem svojim, in ti so ju umorili in jima odsekali roke in noge in so ju obesili pri ribniku v Hebronu. Glavo Isbosetovo pa so vzeli in jo pokopali v Abnerjevem grobu v Hebronu.

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.

¹²In David zapove mladeničem svojim, in ti so ju umorili in jima odsekali roke in noge in so ju obesili pri ribniku v Hebronu. Glavo Isbosetovo pa so vzeli in jo pokopali v Abnerjevem grobu v Hebronu.