¹Kai Sauliaus sūnus išgirdo, kad Abneras žuvo Hebrone, nusviro jo rankos, ir visas Izraelis susijaudino.

¹When Saul’s son heard that Abner was dead in Hebron, his hands became feeble, and all the Israelites were troubled.

²Sauliaus sūnus turėjo du vyrus, pulkų vadus Baaną ir Rechabą, beerotiečio Rimono sūnus iš Benjamino giminės, nes Beerotas priklausė Benjaminui.

²Saul’s son had two men who were 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 is reckoned to Benjamin:

³Beerotiečiai atbėgo į Gitaimus ir ten liko ateiviais iki šios dienos.

³and the Beerothites fled to Gittaim, and have lived as foreigners there until this day).

⁴Sauliaus sūnus Jehonatanas turėjo luošą sūnų. Jis buvo penkerių metų, kai iš Jezreelio atėjo žinia apie Saulių ir Jehonataną. Jo auklė, paėmusi jį, bėgo. Jai beskubant, jis krito ir tapo luošas. Jo vardas buvo Mefi Bošetas.

⁴Now Jonathan, Saul’s son, had a son who was lame of his feet. He was five years old when the news came of Saul and Jonathan out of Jezreel; and his nurse took him up, and fled: and it happened, as she made haste to flee, that he fell, and became lame. His name was Mephibosheth.

⁵Beerotiečio Rimono sūnūs Rechabas ir Baana atėjo pačioje dienos kaitroje į Išbošeto namus, kai tas miegojo ant lovos vidudienį.

⁵The sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, Rechab and Baanah, went, and came about the heat of the day to the house of Ishbosheth, as he took his rest at noon.

⁶Jie įėjo į jo namus tarsi kviečių pasiimti, nudūrė jį į pilvą ir pabėgo.

⁶They came there into the midst of the house, as though they would have fetched wheat; and they struck him in the body: and Rechab and Baanah his brother escaped.

⁷Kai jie įėjo į namus, Išbošetas miegojo ant lovos savo miegamajame. Jie užmušė jį, nukirto galvą ir, ja nešini, ėjo visą naktį per dykumą.

⁷Now when they came into the house, as he lay on his bed in his bedroom, they struck him, and killed him, and beheaded him, and took his head, and went by the way of the Arabah all night.

⁸Atnešę galvą į Hebroną pas Dovydą, tarė jam: “Štai galva Sauliaus sūnaus, tavo priešo Išbošeto, kuris ieškojo tavo gyvybės. Šiandien Viešpats atkeršijo Sauliui ir jo palikuonims už mūsų karalių”.

⁸They brought the head of Ishbosheth to David to Hebron, and said to the king, “Behold, the head of Ishbosheth, the son of Saul, your enemy, who sought your life! Yahweh has avenged my lord the king this day of Saul, and of his seed.”

⁹Dovydas tarė Rechabui ir jo broliui Baanai, beerotiečio Rimono sūnums: “Kaip gyvas Viešpats, kuris išgelbėjo mano sielą iš visokių nelaimių,

⁹David answered Rechab and Baanah his brother, the sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, and said to them, “As Yahweh lives, who has redeemed my soul out of all adversity,

¹⁰tą, kuris man pranešė apie Sauliaus mirtį, galvodamas, kad atnešė man gerą žinią, aš nutvėriau ir nužudžiau Ciklage, užuot jį apdovanojęs už tokią žinią.

¹⁰when someone told me, ‘Behold, Saul is dead,’ thinking to have brought good news, I took hold of him, and killed him in Ziklag, which was the reward I gave him for his news.

¹¹Juo labiau, kai piktadariai nužudė teisų vyrą jo namuose, gulintį lovoje. Ar aš neturiu pareikalauti jo kraujo iš jūsų rankų, pašalindamas jus nuo žemės paviršiaus?”

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

¹²Dovydas įsakė jaunuoliams, ir tie nužudė juos, nukirto jiems rankas ir kojas ir pakorė Hebrone prie tvenkinio. O Išbošeto galvą jie palaidojo Hebrone, Abnero kape.

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