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Ishbosheth Is Killed

Ishbosheth[a] felt like giving up after he heard that Abner had died in Hebron. Everyone in Israel was terrified.

Ishbosheth had put the two brothers Baanah and Rechab in charge of the soldiers who raided enemy villages. Rimmon was their father, and they were from the town of Beeroth, which belonged to the tribe of Benjamin. The people who used to live in Beeroth had run away to Gittaim, and they still live[b] there.

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Footnotes

  1. 4.1 Ishbosheth: Hebrew “The Son of Saul.”
  2. 4.3 live: The Hebrew word means that they did not have the full legal rights of citizens.

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