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.)
Now when Ishbaal, Saul's son, heard that Abner was dead in Hebron, he lost courage, and all Israel was troubled.
And Ishbaal, Saul'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 people of Benjamin (for Beeroth was regarded as belonging to the people of Benjamin;
and the Beerothites fled to Gittaim, and have lived as foreigners there until this day).
Now Jonathan, Saul's son, had a son whose feet were crippled. He was five years old when the news came of Saul and Jonathan from Jezreel, and his nurse took him up and fled. And it happened as she was hurrying to get away that he fell and was injured. And his name was Mippibaal.
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, and came about the heat of the day to the house of Ishbaal, 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.
And look, the doorkeeper of the house had been sifting wheat, and she became drowsy and fell asleep. And Rechab and his brother Baanah slipped by.
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.
And they went into the house where he was lying on his bed in his bedchamber. And they struck him and killed him, and beheaded him. And they 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 Ishbaal to David at Hebron, and said to the king, "Look, the head of Ishbaal, the son of Saul, your enemy, who sought your life. YHWH has avenged my lord the king this day of Saul and his descendants."
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 YHWH 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, 'Look, 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.
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, shall I not now require his blood of your hand, and take you away from the earth?"
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, and cut off their hands and their feet, and hanged them up beside the pool in Hebron. But they took the head of Ishbaal, and buried it in the grave of Abner in Hebron.
