1शाऊलका छोरा ईश्बोशेतले अबनेरको मृत्युको खबर सुन्छ। ईश्बोशेत र तिनका सबै मानिसहरू डराए।
1When Saul’s son heard that Abner was dead in Hebron, his hands became feeble, and all the Israelites were troubled.
2दुइजना मानिसहरू शाऊलका छोरा ईश्बोशेतलाई भेट्न गए। ती दुवै मानिसहरू फौजका कप्तानहरू थिए। तिनीहरूका नाउँ रेकाब र बाना थियो। बेरोतका शिम्मोनका छोराहरू थिए ती दुइ। (बेरोत बिन्यामीन कुल परिवार समूहका अधिनस्त भएकोले तिनीहरू बिन्यामीनी थिए
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:
3तर बेरोतका सबै मानिसहरू गित्तैममा भागे र अहिले सम्म तिनीहरू त्यहीं छन्।)
3and the Beerothites fled to Gittaim, and have lived as foreigners there until this day).
4शाऊलको छोरा जोनाथनका मपीबोशेत नामका छोरा थिए। जब मपीबोशेत पाँच वर्षको हुँदा यिज्रेलबाट शाऊल र जोनाथन मारिएको खबर उसको घरमा आयो। ती शत्रुहरू आइरहेछ भनेर डराइन् मपीबोशेतलाई स्याहार्न उसलाई समातेर टाढ भागिन्। तर जब छिटो-छिटो भाग्न थालीन् त्यो बालक भुइँमा लडयो। यसरी उसको दुवै खुट्टा लङ्गडो भयो।
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.
5बेरोतीका रिम्मोनका छोराहरू रिकाब र बाना मध्यान्हमा ईश्बोशेतको घरमा गए। ईश्बोशेतमा गर्मी भएकोले आराम गरिरहेका थिए।
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.
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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.
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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.
8हेब्रोन आइपुगे अनि दाऊदलाई ईश्बोशेतको टाउको सुम्पे। रेकाब र बानाले राजा दाऊदलाई भने, “तपाईंका शत्रु शाऊलका छोरा ईश्बोशेतको टाउको यहाँ छ। उसले तपाईंलाई मार्न चाहान्थ्यो। परमप्रभुले शाऊल र उसका परिवारका मानिसहरूलाई आज तपाईंको खातिर सजाय दिनुभयो।”
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.”
9तर दाऊदले रेकाब र उसका भाइ बानालाई भने, “परमप्रभु शाश्वत हुनुहुन्छ, निश्चय नै उहाँले मलाई धेरै बिपत्तीहरूबाट बचाउनु भएको छ।
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,
10तर पहिले एकपल्ट एउटाले सोच्यो यो समचार मेरो निम्ति असल थियो र भन्यो, उसले भन्यो, ‘हेर्नु होस् शाऊल मर्यो।’ उसले सोच्यो यो खबर सुनेर म उसलाई उचित पुरस्कार दिन्छु। तर मैले त्यसलाई सिकलगमा मारिदिएँ।
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.
11यसैकारण तिमीहरू, दुष्ट मानिसहरूले निर्दोष मानिसलाई उसको घर भित्र सुतिरहको बेला मार्यौ, अब म तिमीहरूलाई मारेर उसको मृत्युको बद्ला लिनेछु, अनि म तिमीहरूलाई यस भूमि देखि धपाइनदिनेछु।”
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?”
12यसकारण दाऊदले उसको सैनिकहरूलाई रिकाब र बन्नाहलाई मार्ने आदेश दिए। सैनिकहरूले रिकाबको र शरीरलाई बन्नाहका हात खुट्टाहरू काटेर हेब्रोनको पोखरीको छेउमा झुण्ड्याए। तब तिनीहरूले ईश्बोशेतको टाउकोलाई अबनेरको चिहान भित्र हेब्रोनमा गाडे।
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.