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

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

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.

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:

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.”

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,

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,

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,

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.

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?

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?”

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.

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.