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

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:

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 fled to Gittaim, and have lived as foreigners 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. )

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.”

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.

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,

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 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.

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 on his bed, shall I not now require 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.

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.

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.