ey had buried Abner in Hebron, king David lifted up his
voice, and wept at the grave of Abner: and all the people also wept.

3:33. And the king mourning and lamenting over Abner, said: Not as
cowards are wont to die, hath Abner died.

3:34. Thy hands were not bound, nor thy feet laden with fetters: but as
men fall before the children of iniquity, so didst thou fall. And all
the people repeating it wept over him.

3:35. And when all the people came to take meat with David, while it was
yet broad day, David swore, saying: So do God to me, and more also, if I
taste bread or any thing else before sunset.

3:36. And all the people heard, and they were pleased, and all that the
king did seemed good in the sight of all the people.

3:37. And all the people, and all Israel understood that day that it was
not the king's doing, that Abner the son of Ner was slain.

3:38. The king also said to his servants: Do you not know that a prince
and a great man is slain this day in Israel?

3:39. But I as yet am tender, though anointed king. And these men the
sons of Sarvia are too hard for me: the Lord reward him that doth evil
according to his wickedness.

2 Kings Chapter 4

Isboseth is murdered by two of his servants. David punisheth the
murderers.

4:1. And Isboseth the son of Saul heard that Abner was slain in Hebron:
and his hands were weakened, and all Israel was troubled.

4:2. Now the son of Saul had two men captains of his bands, the name of
the one was Baana, and the name of the other Rechab, the sons of Remmon
a Berothite of the children of Benjamin: for Beroth also was reckoned in
Benjamin.

4:3. And the Berothites fled into Gethaim, and were sojourners there
until that time.

4:4. And Jonathan the son of Saul had a son that was lame of his feet:
for he was five years old when the tidings came of Saul and Jonathan
from Jezrahel. And his nurse took him up and fled: and as she made haste
to flee, he fell and became lame: and his name was Miphiboseth.

4:5. And the sons of Remmon the Berothite, Rechab and Baana coming, went
into the house of Isboseth in the heat of the day: and he was sleeping
upon his bed at noon. And the doorkeeper of the house, who was cleansing
wheat, was fallen asleep.

4:6. And they entered into the house secretly taking ears of corn, and
Rechab and Baana his brother stabbed him in the groin, and fled away.

4:7. For when they came into the house, he was sleeping upon his bed in
a parlo