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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[a] there.

(A) Saul's son Jonathan had a son named Mephibosheth,[b] who had not been able to walk since he was five years old. It happened when someone from Jezreel told his nurse that Saul and Jonathan had died.[c] She hurried off with the boy in her arms, but he fell and injured his legs.

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Footnotes

  1. 4.3 live: The Hebrew word means that they did not have the full legal rights of citizens.
  2. 4.4 Mephibosheth: Some manuscripts of one ancient translation have “Mephibaal.” In 1 Chronicles 8.34 and 9.40 he is called “Meribbaal.” See the note on “baal” and “bosheth” at 2.8.
  3. 4.4 Saul … died: See 1 Samuel 31.1-6.

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