2 Samuel 4

¹And when Saul’s son heard that Abner was dead in Hebron, his hands were feeble, and all the Israelites were troubled. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Ezra 4:4Isa 13:7Jer 6:242 Sam 17:22 Sam 3:27Isa 35:3Jer 50:43Matt 2:2-3Neh 6:9Zeph 3:16

²And Saul’s son had two men that were captains of bands: the name of the one was Baanah, and the name of the other Rechab, the sons of Rimmon a Beerothite, of the children of Benjamin: (for Beeroth also was reckoned to Benjamin: Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Josh 18:25Josh 9:172 Kgs 5:22 Kgs 6:232 Sam 3:22

³And the Beerothites fled to Gittaim, and were sojourners there until this day.) Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Neh 11:331 Sam 31:7

⁴And Jonathan, Saul’s son, had a son that was lame of his feet. He was five years old when the tidings came of Saul and Jonathan out of Jezreel, and his nurse took him up, and fled: and it came to pass, as she made haste to flee, that he fell, and became lame. And his name was Mephibosheth. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:2 Sam 9:31 Chr 9:402 Sam 9:61 Chr 8:341 Sam 29:11 Sam 29:111 Sam 31:1-10

⁵And the sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, Rechab and Baanah, went, and came about the heat of the day to the house of Ish–bosheth, who lay on a bed at noon. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Prov 24:33-341 Kgs 16:91 Thess 5:3-72 Chr 24:252 Chr 25:272 Sam 11:22 Sam 2:82 Chr 33:24

⁶And they came thither into the midst of the house, as though they would have fetched wheat; and they smote him under the fifth rib: and Rechab and Baanah his brother escaped. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:2 Sam 2:232 Sam 20:102 Sam 3:27

⁷For when they came into the house, he lay on his bed in his bedchamber, and they smote him, and slew him, and beheaded him, and took his head, and gat them away through the plain all night. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:1 Sam 17:541 Sam 31:92 Kgs 10:6-72 Sam 2:29Mark 6:28-29Matt 14:11

⁸And they brought the head of Ish–bosheth unto David to Hebron, and said to the king, Behold the head of Ish–bosheth the son of Saul thine enemy, which sought thy life; and the Lord hath avenged my lord the king this day of Saul, and of his seed. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:1 Sam 25:292 Sam 22:481 Sam 18:111 Sam 19:151 Sam 19:2-111 Sam 20:11 Sam 23:151 Sam 24:42 Sam 18:192 Sam 18:31

⁹And David answered Rechab and Baanah his brother, the sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, and said unto them, As the Lord liveth, who hath redeemed my soul out of all adversity, Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:1 Kgs 1:29Gen 48:16Ps 107:2Ps 34:6-7Ps 103:4Ps 34:17Ps 31:5-7Ps 34:22Ps 71:232 Tim 4:17-18

¹⁰When one told me, saying, Behold, Saul is dead, thinking to have brought good tidings, I took hold of him, and slew him in Ziklag, who thought that I would have given him a reward for his tidings: Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:2 Sam 1:2-16

¹¹How much more, when wicked men have slain a righteous person in his own house upon his bed? shall I not therefore now require his blood of your hand, and take you away from the earth? Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Ps 9:12Gen 9:5-6Num 35:31-34Prov 2:221 John 3:121 Kgs 2:322 Sam 3:272 Sam 3:39Exod 21:12Exod 9:15

¹²And David commanded his young men, and they slew them, and cut off their hands and their feet, and hanged them up over the pool in Hebron. But they took the head of Ish–bosheth, and buried it in the sepulchre of Abner in Hebron. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:2 Sam 1:152 Sam 3:322 Sam 21:9Deut 21:22-23Matt 7:2Ps 55:23