The KJV Bible With Strong's References:
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2 Samuel 4
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- 4:1 And when
Saul's
son
heard that
Abner was
dead in
Hebron, his
hands were
feeble, and all the
Israelites were
troubled.
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- 4:2 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:
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- 4:3 And the
Beerothites
fled to
Gittaim, and were
sojourners there until this
day.)
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- 4:4 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.
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- 4:5 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.
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- 4:6 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.
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- 4:7 For when they
came into the
house, he
lay on his
bed in his
bedchamber
*, and they
smote him, and
slew him, and
beheaded him, and
took his
head, and gat them
away
through the
plain all
night.
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- 4:8 And they
brought the
head of
Ishbosheth unto
David to
Hebron, and
said to the
king, Behold the
head of
Ishbosheth the
son of
Saul thine
enemy, which
sought thy
life; and the
LORD
hath
avenged my
lord the
king this
day of
Saul, and of his
seed.
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- 4:9 And
David
answered
Rechab and
Baanah his
brother, the
sons of
Rimmon the
Beerothite, and
said unto them, As the
LORD
liveth, who hath
redeemed my
soul out of all
adversity,
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- 4:10 When one
told me,
saying, Behold,
Saul is
dead, thinking to have
brought good
tidings, I took
hold of him, and
slew him in
Ziklag, who thought that I would have
given him a reward for his
tidings:
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- 4:11 How much more, when
wicked
men have
slain a
righteous
person in his own
house upon his
bed? shall I not therefore now
require his
blood of your
hand, and take you
away from the
earth?
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- 4:12 And
David
commanded his young
men, and they
slew them, and cut
off their
hands and their
feet, and hanged them
up over the
pool in
Hebron. But they
took the
head of
Ishbosheth, and
buried it in the
sepulchre of
Abner in
Hebron.
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