2 Samuel 4— comparação

1Quando o filho de Saul ouviu que Abner estava morto em Hebrom, as suas mãos ficaram fracas, e todos os israelitas ficaram perturbados.

2O filho de Saul tinha dois homens que eram capitães de bandos de ataque. O nome de um era Baaná e o nome do outro era Recabe, filhos de Rimom, o beerotita, dos filhos de Benjamim (pois Beerote também é considerada parte de Benjamim;

3e os beerotitas fugiram para Gitaim, e têm vivido como estrangeiros ali até hoje).

4Ora, Jônatas, filho de Saul, tinha um filho que era aleijado dos pés. Ele tinha cinco anos de idade quando as notícias sobre Saul e Jônatas chegaram de Jezreel; e a sua ama o pegou e fugiu. Enquanto ela se apressava em fugir, ele caiu e ficou aleijado. Seu nome era Mefibosete.

5Os filhos de Rimom, o beerotita, Recabe e Baaná, saíram e chegaram à casa de Isbosete por volta da hora mais quente do dia, enquanto ele tirava o seu descanso ao meio-dia.

6Eles entraram até o meio da casa como se fossem buscar trigo, e o feriram no estômago; e Recabe e Baaná, seu irmão, escaparam.

7Quando eles entraram na casa, enquanto ele estava deitado na sua cama, no seu quarto, eles o feriram, mataram-no, decapitaram-no e levaram a sua cabeça, e marcharam pelo caminho da Arabá toda a noite.

8Eles trouxeram a cabeça de Isbosete a Davi em Hebrom, e disseram ao rei: “Eis a cabeça de Isbosete, o filho de Saul, seu inimigo, que buscava a sua vida! O SENHOR vingou hoje o meu senhor, o rei, de Saul e de sua descendência.”

9Davi respondeu a Recabe e a Baaná, seu irmão, filhos de Rimom, o beerotita, e lhes disse: “Tão certo como vive o SENHOR, que redimiu a minha alma de toda adversidade,

10quando alguém me disse: 'Eis que Saul está morto', pensando que trazia boas notícias, eu o agarrei e o matei em Ziclague, a qual foi a recompensa que eu lhe dei por sua notícia.

11Quanto mais quando homens perversos mataram uma pessoa justa na sua própria casa, na sua cama, não deverei eu agora exigir o sangue dele das mãos de vocês e eliminá-los da face da terra?”

12Davi deu ordens aos seus jovens, e eles os mataram, cortaram-lhes as mãos e os pés, e os penduraram ao lado do açude em Hebrom. Mas pegaram a cabeça de Isbosete e a sepultaram no túmulo de Abner em Hebrom.

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

2Saul’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;

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

4Now 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.

5The 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.

6They 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.

7Now 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.

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 today of Saul and of his offspring. ”

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,

10when 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.

11How 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?”

12David 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.