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

¹Huan, Saula tapa Is-boseth in Hebron ah Abner a si chih a na zak in a khutte a hong hattakei a, huan, Israel mi tengteng a lungketa uhi.

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

²Huan, Saula tapa Is-boseth in sepaih pawl heutu nih a nei a: khat min Baan ahi a, a dang min Rekab ahi, Benjamin suan Beeroth mi Rimon tapate ahi uh:

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

³(Beeroth bel Benjamin gam a sim ahi ngal a: Beeroth khua a mite Gitaim ah a tai ua, tu tan in huailai ah a om uh. )

⁴And Jonathan Saul's son had a son that was lame of [his] feet. He was five years old when the news came of Saul and Jonathan out of Jizreel; 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.

⁴Huan, Saula tapa Jonathan in tapa khebai a nei a; Jezreel a kipan a Saula leh Jonathan tanchin a natheih in kum nga a upa ahi a; huchi in amah donnun a pom a, a taimang pih a: huan, hichi ahi a, taimang ding a kintatna lam in a kesak a, a khe a hongbaita hi. A min Mephiboseth ahi.

⁵And the sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, Rechab and Baanah, went and came in about the heat of the day into the house of Ishbosheth, who was taking his noonday rest.

⁵Huan, Beeroth mi Rimon tapate Rekab leh Baan bel a pai ua, Is-boseth in ah sun nisat sanlai tak a a sun khawllai in ahoh ua.

⁶And they came thither into the midst of the house, [as though] they would fetch wheat; and they smote him in the belly; and Rechab and Baanah his brother escaped.

⁶Buh lading hile uh kilawm in insung lam ah a lut ua; a gil ah a vut ua: huan, Rekab leh a unaupa Baan a taimangta uh.

⁷They came into the house, as he lay on his bed in his bedchamber, and they smote him, and slew him, and beheaded him; and they took his head, and went by the way of the plain all night.

⁷Huan, in ah a valut ua a lupna dantan a lupna a lum a vavut ua, a that ua, a lu a tan ua, a lu a la ua, Araba kantan in zankhua in a pai uh.

⁸And they brought the head of Ishbosheth to David in Hebron, and said to the king, Behold the head of Ishbosheth the son of Saul, thine enemy who sought thy life; and Jehovah has given to my lord the king to be avenged this day of Saul and of his seed.

⁸Huan, Is-boseth lu Hebron ah David kiang ah a hontawi ua, kumpipa kiang ah, Ngai in, hiai, nanga, honthah tum, na melma Saula tapa Is-boseth lu; TOUPAN ka TOUPA phu tuni in Saula leh a suan tungah a laksakta hi, a chi ua.

⁹Then David answered Rechab and Baanah his brother, the sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, and said to them, [As] Jehovah liveth, who has redeemed my soul out of all distress,

⁹Huan, David in Beeroth mi Rimon tapa Rekab leh a unaupa a dawng a, a kiang uah, TOUPA ka mangbatna tengteng a hontanpa hinna lou in ka gen hi.

¹⁰when one told me, saying, Behold, Saul is dead! and he was in his own sight a messenger of good, I took hold of him, and slew him in Ziklag -- to whom forsooth I should give a reward for his good tidings:

¹⁰Tanchin hoih hontun a kisep in, Ngai in, Saula a sita, chi in mi khat in hon hilh a, amah ka man a, Ziklag ah ka that a; huai tuh a tanchin hoih honpuak man a ka na piak ahi.

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

¹¹Mi diktat, amah insung lum a, a lupna tung ngei a mi, mi gilou in a thah uh sisan man na tunguah ka honphut nawn sem in, leitung a kipan ka hon nak hihmang sin na tel e aw! a chi a.Huchi in David in a tangvalte thu a pia a, amau amaute a that ua, a khut uleh a khe uh a tansak ua, Hebron a dil gei ah a khai uhi. Is-boseth lu bel a la ua, Hebron a Abner han ah a vui uhi.

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.

¹²Huchi in David in a tangvalte thu a pia a, amau amaute a that ua, a khut uleh a khe uh a tansak ua, Hebron a dil gei ah a khai uhi. Is-boseth lu bel a la ua, Hebron a Abner han ah a vui uhi.