1 Q uando Isbosete, filho de Saul, soube que Abner morrera em Hebrom, esvaíram-se-lhe as forças, e todo o Israel ficou perturbado.

When Saul’s son heard that Abner had died in Hebron, he lost heart, and all Israel was troubled.

2 T inha Isbosete, filho de Saul, dois homens chefes de guerrilheiros; um deles se chamava Baaná, e o outro Recabe, filhos de Rimom, o beerotita, dos filhos de Benjamim (porque também Beerote era contado de Benjamim,

Now Saul’s son had two men who were captains of troops. 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 was part of Benjamin,

3 t endo os beerotitas fugido para Jitaim, onde têm peregrinado até o dia de hoje).

because the Beerothites fled to Gittaim and have been sojourners there until this day.)

4 O ra, Jônatas, filho de Saul, tinha um filho aleijado dos pés. Este era da idade de cinco anos quando chegaram de Jizreel as novas a respeito de Saul e Jônatas; pelo que sua ama o tomou, e fugiu; e sucedeu que, apressando-se ela a fugir, ele caiu, e ficou coxo. O seu nome era Mefibosete.

Jonathan, Saul’s son, had a son who was lame in his feet. He was five years old when the news about Saul and Jonathan came from 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.

5 F oram os filhos de Rimom, o beerotita, Recabe e Baanã, no maior calor de dia, e entraram em casa de Isbosete, estando ele deitado a dormir a sesta.

Then the sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, Rechab and Baanah, set out and came at about the heat of the day to the house of Ishbosheth, who was lying on his bed at noon.

6 E ntraram ali até o meio da casa, como que vindo apanhar trigo, e o feriram no ventre; e Recabe e Baaná, seu irmão, escaparam.

And they came there, all the way into the house, as though to get wheat, and they stabbed him in the stomach. Then Rechab and Baanah his brother escaped.

7 P orque entraram na sua casa, estando ele deitado na cama, no seu quarto de dormir, e o feriram e mataram, e cortando-lhe a cabeça, tomaram-na e andaram a noite toda pelo caminho da Arabá.

For when they came into the house, he was lying on his bed in his bedroom; then they struck him and killed him, beheaded him and took his head, and were all night escaping through the plain.

8 A ssim trouxeram a cabeça de Isbosete a Davi em Hebrom, e disseram ao rei: Eis aqui a cabeça de Isbosete, filho de Saul, teu inimigo, que procurava a tua morte; assim o Senhor vingou hoje ao rei meu Senhor, de Saul e da sua descendência.

And they brought the head of Ishbosheth to David at Hebron, and said to the king, “Here is the head of Ishbosheth, the son of Saul your enemy, who sought your life; and the Lord has avenged my lord the king this day of Saul and his descendants.”

9 M as Davi, respondendo a Recabe e a Baaná, seu irmão, filhos de Rimom, e beerotita, disse-lhes: Vive o Senhor, que remiu a minha alma de toda a angústia!

But 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 life from all adversity,

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when someone told me, saying, ‘Look, Saul is dead,’ thinking to have brought good news, I arrested him and had him executed in Ziklag—the one who thought I would give him a reward for his news.

11 q uanto mais quando homens cruéis mataram um homem justo em sua casa, sobre a sua cama, não requererei eu e seu sangue de vossas mãos, e não vos exterminarei da terra?

How much more, when wicked men have killed a righteous person in his own house on his bed? Therefore, shall I not now require his blood at your hand and remove you from the earth?”

12 E Davi deu ordem aos seus mancebos; e eles os mataram e, cortando-lhes as mãos e os pés, os penduraram junto ao tanque em Hebrom. Tomaram, porém, a cabeça de Isbosete, e a sepultaram na sepultura de Abner, em Hebrom.

So David commanded his young men, and they executed them, cut off their hands and feet, and hanged them by the pool in Hebron. But they took the head of Ishbosheth and buried it in the tomb of Abner in Hebron.