2 USamuyeli 4 - iBhayibhili Elingcwele 1978

Ukubulawa kukaIshiboshethi

¹ Lapho esezwile uIshiboshethi indodana kaSawuli ukuthi uAbineri ufele eHebroni, wangenwa ngumhedehede, labo bonke abakoIsrayeli bakhathazeka.

² Indodana kaSawuli yayilamadoda amabili ayeyizinduna zamaqela okuhlasela, ibizo lenye lalinguBahana, lebizo lenye linguRekabi, amadodana kaRimoni indoda yakoBenjamini yaseBerothi; ngoba iBerothi lalo lalibalelwa koBenjamini;

³ abaseBerothi babalekela eGithayimi, bahlala khona kwaze kwaba lamuhla.

⁴ UJonathani indodana kaSawuli wayelendodana eyayiyisilima enyaweni zombili. Yayileminyaka emihlanu ekufikeni kombiko wokufa kukaSawuli loJonathani uvela eJezereli; umlizane wayo wayithatha, wabaleka; kwathi ekuphangiseni kwakhe ukubaleka, yawa yalimala. Ibizo layo lalinguMefiboshethi.

⁵ Amadodana kaRimoni waseBerothi, uRekabi loBahana, asuka aya endlini kaIshiboshethi, afika selitshisa ilanga, yena wayelele ephumula emini.

⁶ Owesifazana olinda umnyango wendlu wayekade esela amabele, wasewozela elala; ngakho uRekabi loBahana umfowabo bangena phakathi.

⁷ Sebengenile endlini, esalele endlini yakhe, bamtshaya, bambulala, baquma ikhanda lakhe; balithatha, bahamba ngendlela yaseAraba ubusuku bonke.

⁸ Balisa kuDavida eHebroni. Bathi kuye: Nanti ikhanda likaIshiboshethi indodana kaSawuli, isitha sakho ebesifuna ukukubulala; iNkosi uNkulunkulu iphindiselele lamuhla inkosi yami kuSawuli lakuyo inzalo yakhe.

⁹ Kodwa uDavida wabaphendula uRekabi loBahana umfowabo, amadodana kaRimoni waseBerothi, wathi: Ngifunga iNkosi engihlenge ezinhluphekweni zonke,

¹⁰ lowo owangibikela wathi: USawuli ufile; ecabanga ukuthi uletha izindaba ezinhle, ngambamba, ngambulala eZiklagi, kwaba ngumvuzo engamnika wona wezindaba zakhe ezinhle.

¹¹ Phoke, lapho abantu ababi bebulele umuntu olungileyo endlini yakhe esembhedeni wakhe, angiyikubiza yini igazi lakhe ezandleni zenu, ngilibhubhise lina emhlabeni na?

¹² UDavida waselaya insizwa zakhe, zababulala, zabaquma izandla lenyawo, zabaphanyeka eceleni kwechibi laseHebroni. Kodwa zathatha ikhanda likaIshiboshethi, zalingcwaba engcwabeni likaAbineri eHebroni.