1 When Shaawal (Sheol / afterlife) ban (son) shamai (hearken / hear) that Abanar (Abner) was mawath (death) in Chabarawan (Hebron), his yad (hand) became rapah (feeble), and all the Yashar-Al (Israelites) were bahal (troubled).
2 Shaawal (Sheol / afterlife) ban (son) hayah (came to pass) shanayam (two) anashayam (men) who were sharay (captains) of gadawadayam (bands): the sham (name) of the achad (one) was Bainah (Baanah), and the sham (name) of the other Rakab (Rechab), the banay (my son) of Ramawan (Rimmon) the Baarathay (Beerothite), of the banay (my son) of Banayamayan (Benjamin) (for Baarawath (Beeroth) also is chashab (reckoned) to Banayamayan (Benjamin):
3 And the Baarathay (Beerothites) barach (fled) to Gathayam (Gittaim), and have lived as foreigners there until this yawam (day)).
4 Now Yahawanathan (Jonathan), Shaawal (Sheol / afterlife) ban (son), had a ban (son) who was nakah (lame) of his ragalayam (feet). He was chamash (five) shanayam (two) ban (son) when the shamawaih (news) bawaa (bring) of Shaawal (Sheol / afterlife) and Yahawanathan (Jonathan) out of Yazaraial (Jezreel); and his aman (believe / have faith) nashaa (lift) him up, and nawas (fled): and it happened, as she made chapaz (haste) to nawas (flee), that he napal (fall / be cast down), and pasach (became) lame. His sham (name) was Mapayabashath (Mephibosheth).
5 The banay (my son) of Ramawan (Rimmon) the Baarathay (Beerothite), Rakab (Rechab) and Bainah (Baanah), yalak (went), and bawaa (bring) about the cham (heat) of the yawam (day) to the bayath (house) of Ayashabashath (Ishbosheth), as he shakab (took) his mashakab (rest) at tzahar (noon).
6 They bawaa (bring) there into the thawak (midst) of the bayath (house), as though they would have laqach (take / seize) chatah (wheat); and they nakah (struck) him in the body: and Rakab (Rechab) and Bainah (Baanah) his ach (brother/kinsman) malat (escaped).
7 Now when they bawaa (bring) into the bayath (house), as he shakab (lay) on his matah (bed) in his bedroom, they nakah (struck) him, and nakah (killed) him, and sawar (beheaded) him, and laqach (take / seize) his raash (head), and yalak (went) by the darak (way) of the irabah (arabah) all layal (night).
8 They bawaa (come) the raash (head) of Ayashabashath (Ishbosheth) to Dawad (David) to Chabarawan (Hebron), and amar (spoke) to the malak (king), “Behold, the raash (head) of Ayashabashath (Ishbosheth), the ban (son) of Shaawal (Saul), your ayab (enemy), who baqash (sought) your napash (soul)! Yahawah () nathan (give) naqamah (avenged) my Adawan () the malak (king) this yawam (day) of Shaawal (Saul), and of his zarai (seed).”
9 Dawad (David) inah (answer / respond) Rakab (Rechab) and Bainah (Baanah) his ach (brother/kinsman), the banay (sons) of Ramawan (Rimmon) the Baarathay (Beerothite), and amar (spoke) to them, “As Yahawah () chay (life), who has padah (redeemed) my napash (soul) out of all tzarah (adversity),
10 When someone nagad (told) me, ‘Behold, Shaawal (Sheol / afterlife) is mawath (death),’ iyan (eye) to have brought bashar (good) news, I took achaz (hold) of him, and harag (kill) him in Tzaqalag (Ziklag), which was the reward I nathan (give) him for his news.
11 How much more, when rashai (wicked) anashayam (men) have harag (kill) a tzadayaq (righteous) ayash (man / husband) in his own bayath (house) on his mashakab (bed), shall I not now baqash (require) his dam (blood) of your yad (hand), and bair (take) you away from the aratz (Earth/land)?”
12 Dawad (David) tzawah (commanded) his nair (young) men, and they harag (kill) them, and qatzatz (cut) off their yad (hand) and their ragal (feet / foot), and hanged them up beside the barakah (pool) in Chabarawan (Hebron). But they laqach (take / seize) the raash (head) of Ayashabashath (Ishbosheth), and qabar (grave / tomb / sepulcher) it in the qabar (grave / tomb / sepulcher) of Abanar (Abner) in Chabarawan (Hebron).