4:1 And when Sha'ul's son heard that Avner was dead in Hevron, his hands were feeble, and all the Yisra'elites were troubled.
4:2 And Sha'ul's son had two men [that were] captains of bands: the name of the one [was] Ba’anah, and the name of the other Rechav, Benai Rimmon a Be'eroti, of the Benai Benyamin: (for Beeroth also was reckoned to Benyamin:
4:3 And the Be'erotis fled to Gittaim, and were sojourners there until this day.)
4:4 And Yonatan, Sha'ul's son, had a son [that was] lame of [his] feet. He was five years old when the tidings came of Sha'ul and Yonatan out of Yezreel, 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] Mefiboshet.
4:5 And Benai Rimmon the Be'eroti, Rechav and Ba’anah, went, and came about the heat of the day to the beit Ish-Boshet, who lay on a bed at noon.
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 Rechav and Ba’anah his brother escaped.
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.
4:8 And they brought the head of Ish-Boshet unto David to Hevron, and said to the king, Behold the head of Ish-Boshet Ben Sha'ul thine enemy, which sought thy life; and YHWH (יהוה) hath avenged my adon (אדון) the king this day of Sha'ul, and of his seed.
4:9 And David answered Rechav and Ba’anah his brother, Benai Rimmon ha Be'eroti, and said unto them, [As] YHWH (יהוה) liveth, who hath redeemed my soul out of all adversity,
4:10 When one told me, saying:
Behold, Sha'ul 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:
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?
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 Hevron. But they took the head of Ish-Boshet, and buried [it] in the Kever (tomb) of Avner in Hevron.
Ish Bo'shet - (אישׁ־בּשׁת, 'īsh-bōsheth, “man of shame”' Ἰεσβοσθέ, Iesbosthé): Called אשׁבּעל, 'eshba‛al, “man of Baal” (1Ch_8:33), and ישׁוי, yishwī, “man of Yahweh” (?), perhaps for אישׁיו, 'īsheyō (1Sa_14:49). Fourth and youngest son of Sha'ul, His original name was "Esh-baal (= "man of ba'al" [then, YHWH]; see I Chron. viii. 33, ix. 39)