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Saul’s son Jonathan had a son who was crippled in his feet. He was five years old when the news about Saul and Jonathan came from Jezreel. His nurse picked him up and fled; and, in her haste to flee, it happened that he fell and became lame. His name was Mephibosheth.[a]

Now the sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, Rechab and Baanah, set out, and about the heat of the day they came to the house of Ishbaal,[b] while he was taking his noonday rest. They came inside the house as though to take wheat, and they struck him in the stomach; then Rechab and his brother Baanah escaped.[c]

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Samuel 4:4 In 1 Chr 8.34 and 9.40, Merib-baal
  2. 2 Samuel 4:5 Heb Ish-bosheth
  3. 2 Samuel 4:6 Meaning of Heb of verse 6 uncertain

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