These words, which I am ordering you today, are to be on your heart; and you are to teach them carefully to your children. You are to talk about them when you sit at home, when you are traveling on the road, when you lie down and when you get up. (Deuteronomy 6:6-7)
BIBLES
King James Version (1769 Pure Cambridge Edition) and JPS Tanakh (1917).
Both texts are in the public domain. Some original names have been restored
2 Samuel 4
Tanakh 12 verses
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And when Saul’s son heard that Abner was dead in , his hands became feeble, and all the Israelites were affrighted.
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And Saul’s son had two men that were captains of bands; the of the one was Baanah, and the of the other Rechab, the sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, of the children of ; for Beeroth also is reckoned to ;
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and the Beerothites fled to Gittaim, and have been sojourners there until this day.
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Now , Saul’s son, had a son that was lame of his feet. He was five years old when the tidings came of and 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 was Mephibosheth.
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- 5 And the sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, Rechab and Baanah, went, and came about the heat of the day to the house of Ish-bosheth, as he took his rest at noon.
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And they came thither into the midst of the house, as though they would have fetched wheat; and they smote him in the groin; and Rechab and Baanah his brother escaped.
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Now when they came into the house, as he lay on his bed in his bed-chamber, they smote him, and slew him, and beheaded him, and took his head, and went by the way of the Arabah all night.
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- 8 And they brought the head of Ish-bosheth unto to , and said to the : ‘Behold the head of Ish-bosheth the son of thine enemy, who sought thy life; and hath avenged my lord the this day of , and of his seed.’
- 9 And answered Rechab and Baanah his brother, the sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, and said unto them: ‘As liveth, who hath redeemed my out of all adversity,
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when one told me, saying: Behold, is dead, and he was in his own eyes as though he brought good tidings, I took hold of him, and slew him in Ziklag, instead of giving a reward for his tidings.
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- 11 How much more, when wicked men have slain a righteous person in his own house upon his bed, shall I not now require his of your hand, and take you away from the earth?’
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And commanded his young men, and they slew them, and cut off their hands and their feet, and hanged them up beside the pool in . But they took the head of Ish-bosheth, and buried it in the grave of Abner in .
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