2 Samuel 4:3-5

Contemporary English Version

³The people who used to live in Beeroth had run away to Gittaim, and they still live^[a] there.

⁴^(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.

⁵One day about noon, Rechab and Baanah went to Ishbosheth's house. It was a hot day, and he was resting

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Footnotes

4.3 live: The Hebrew word means that they did not have the full legal rights of citizens.
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.
4.4 Saul … died: See 1 Samuel 31.1-6.