10:003:030 So Joab, and Abishai his brother slew Abner,
because he had
slain
their brother Asahel at Gibeon in the battle.
10:003:031 And David said to Joab, and to all the
people that were with
him,
Rend your clothes, and gird you with sackcloth, and
mourn
before
Abner. And king David himself followed the bier.
10:003:032 And they buried Abner in Hebron: and
the king lifted up his
voice,
and wept at the grave of Abner; and all the people
wept.
10:003:033 And the king lamented over Abner, and said,
Died Abner as a
fool
dieth?
10:003:034 Thy hands were not bound, nor thy feet
put into fetters: as a
man
falleth before wicked men, so fellest thou. And
all the
people
wept again over him.
10:003:035 And when all the people came to cause David
to eat meat while
it
was yet day, David sware, saying, So do God to me,
and more
also,
if I taste bread, or ought else, till the sun be down.
10:003:036 And all the people took notice of it, and
it pleased them: as
whatsoever
the king did pleased all the people.
10:003:037 For all the people and all Israel understood
that day that it
was
not of the king to slay Abner the son of Ner.
10:003:038 And the king said unto his servants, Know
ye not that there is
a
prince and a great man fallen this day in Israel?
10:003:039 And I am this day weak, though anointed
king; and these men
the
sons of Zeruiah be too hard for me: the lord
shall reward
the
doer of evil according to his wickedness.
10:004:001 And when Saul’s son heard that Abner
was dead in Hebron, his
hands
were feeble, and all the Israelites were troubled.
10:004:002 And 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.
10:004:003 And the Beerothites fled to Gittaim, and
were sojourners there
until
this day.)
10:004:004 And 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.
10:004:005 And the sons of Rimmon the Beerothite,
Rechab and Baanah,
went,
and came about the heat of the day to the house of
Ishbosheth,
who lay on a bed at noon.
10:004:006 And 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.


