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

¹In ko je slišal Isboset, Savlov sin, da je Abner mrtev v Hebronu, mu omahnejo roke, in ves Izrael se ustraši.

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:

²Imel pa je Savlov sin dva moža, poveljnika trum: enemu je bilo ime Baana, drugemu pa Rekab, sinova Rimona Berotčana, izmed sinov Benjaminovih (kajti Berot se tudi šteje k Benjaminu;

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

³bili so pa Berotčani bežali v Gitaim in so ondi prebivali do današnjega dne).

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.

⁴Jonatan pa, Savlov sin, je imel sina, hromega na nogah. Pet let je bil star, ko je prišla vest o Savlu in Jonatanu iz Jezreela; in njegova dojka ga je vzela in bežala, in ko je hitela, da ubeži, je padel in ohromel. In ime mu je bilo Mefiboset.

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.

⁵In sinova Rimona Berotčana, Rekab in Baana, sta šla in dospela, ko je bil dan najbolj vroč, v hišo Isbosetovo, ko je počival na postelji opoldne.

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.

⁶In stopita sredi hiše, kakor da bi hotela vzeti pšenice, in ga zabodeta pod rebra, in Rekab in Baana, brat njegov, zbežita.

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.

⁷Ko sta namreč prišla v hišo in je on ležal v spalnici svoji na postelji, ga udarita in umorita ter mu odsekata glavo, in vzameta glavo njegovo in bežita po poti nižine Arabe vso noč.

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.”

⁸In prineseta glavo Isbosetovo Davidu v Hebron in rečeta kralju: Glej, glava Isboseta, sina Savlovega, tvojega sovražnika, ki ti je stregel po življenju! GOSPOD je danes maščeval gospoda mojega, kralja, nad Savlom in nad semenom njegovim.

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,

⁹David pa odgovori Rekabu in Baanu, bratu njegovemu, sinoma Rimona Berotčana, in jima reče: Kakor res živi GOSPOD, ki je odrešil dušo mojo vseh bridkosti:

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.

¹⁰ko mi je tisti oznanil, rekoč: Glej, Savel je mrtev! in je menil, da je vesela vest zame, pa sem ga prijel in umoril v Ziklagu ter mu dal s tem plačilo za vest njegovo:

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?”

¹¹koliko bolj, ko sta dva brezbožneža umorila pravičnega moža v njegovi hiši na postelji njegovi! nimam li zdaj zahtevati krvi njegove iz vajinih rok in vaju potrebiti z zemlje?In David zapove mladeničem svojim, in ti so ju umorili in jima odsekali roke in noge in so ju obesili pri ribniku v Hebronu. Glavo Isbosetovo pa so vzeli in jo pokopali v Abnerjevem grobu v Hebronu.

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.

¹²In David zapove mladeničem svojim, in ti so ju umorili in jima odsekali roke in noge in so ju obesili pri ribniku v Hebronu. Glavo Isbosetovo pa so vzeli in jo pokopali v Abnerjevem grobu v Hebronu.