2 Samuel 4
1 Keturunan Saul yang lain ialah Mefiboset, putra Yonatan. Dia pincang sejak berumur lima tahun, yaitu ketika Saul dan Yonatan meninggal. Sebab pada saat kabar tentang kematian mereka datang dari kota Yizreel, inang pengasuh Mefiboset menggendongnya lalu lari; tetapi karena wanita itu sangat terburu-buru, anak itu jatuh sehingga menjadi pincang. Ketika Isyboset putra Saul mendengar bahwa Abner telah dibunuh di Hebron, hilanglah semangatnya, dan seluruh bangsa Israel menjadi gentar. Isyboset mempunyai dua orang perwira yang menjadi kepala pasukan penyerbu; yang seorang bernama Baana, yang seorang lagi bernama Rekhab. Mereka anak Rimon, dari Beerot dari suku Benyamin. (Beerot terhitung daerah Benyamin. Penduduk aslinya sudah melarikan diri ke Gitaim dan tinggal di sana semenjak itu.)
When Saul’s son heard that Abner was dead in Hebron, his hands became feeble, and all the Israelites were troubled.
Saul’s son had two men who were captains of raiding bands. The name of 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 considered a part of Benjamin;
and the Beerothites fled to Gittaim, and have lived as foreigners there until today).
Now Jonathan, Saul’s son, had a son who was lame in his feet. He was five years old when the news came about Saul and Jonathan out of Jezreel; and his nurse picked him up and fled. As she hurried to flee, he fell and became lame. His name was Mephibosheth.
5 Kedua orang perwira itu, yaitu Rekhab dan Baana berangkat ke rumah Isyboset dan tiba di situ pada waktu tengah hari, ketika Isyboset sedang istirahat siang.
The sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, Rechab and Baanah, went out and came at about the heat of the day to the house of Ishbosheth as he took his rest at noon.
6 Wanita penjaga rumah mengantuk ketika sedang membersihkan gandum, lalu tertidur. Karena itu Rekhab dan Baana dapat menyelinap masuk.
They came there into the middle of the house as though they would have fetched wheat, and they struck him in the body; and Rechab and Baanah his brother escaped.
7 Mereka terus masuk ke kamar tidur di mana Isyboset sedang tidur nyenyak, lalu menikam dia sampai mati. Mereka memenggal kepalanya dan membawanya pergi. Semalam suntuk mereka berjalan melalui Lembah Yordan.
Now when they came into the house as he lay on his bed in his bedroom, they struck him, killed him, beheaded him, and took his head, and went by the way of the Arabah all night.
8 Kemudian mereka menyerahkan kepala Isyboset itu kepada Daud di Hebron sambil berkata, "Inilah kepala Isyboset putra Saul, musuh Baginda yang berusaha hendak membunuh Baginda. Hari ini TUHAN telah membalas perbuatan Saul dan keturunannya bagi Baginda."
They 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! The LORD has avenged my lord the king today of Saul and of his offspring.”
9 Tetapi Daud menjawab, "TUHAN yang hidup, yang telah menyelamatkan aku dari segala bahaya, tahu bahwa yang akan kukatakan ini benar.
David answered Rechab and Baanah his brother, the sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, and said to them, “As the LORD lives, who has redeemed my soul out of all adversity,
10 Ketika di Ziklag ada orang yang memberitahukan kepadaku tentang wafatnya Saul, dikiranya bahwa dia membawa kabar baik. Tetapi dia telah kutangkap dan kubunuh. Itulah upah yang kuberikan kepadanya sebagai imbalan atas kabar yang dibawanya itu.
when someone told me, ‘Behold, Saul is dead,’ thinking that he brought good news, I seized him and killed him in Ziklag, which was the reward I gave him for his news.
11 Betapa lebih berat lagi hukuman yang akan kujatuhkan kepada penjahat yang telah membunuh orang yang tidak bersalah dan sedang tidur di rumahnya sendiri! Sekarang aku menuntut pembalasan kepadamu atas pembunuhan itu, serta melenyapkan kamu dari muka bumi ini!"
How much more, when wicked men have slain a righteous person in his own house on his bed, should I not now require his blood from your hand, and rid the earth of you?”
12 Setelah itu Daud memerintahkan kepada anak buahnya untuk membunuh Rekhab dan Baana. Sesudah dibunuh, tangan dan kaki mereka dipotong dan digantung di dekat kolam. Tetapi kepala Isyboset itu diambil dan dikuburkan di kota itu juga di dalam kuburan Abner.
David commanded his young men, and they killed them, 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 Abner’s grave in Hebron.
