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When Saul’s son heard that Abner was dead in Hebron, his hands became feeble, and all the Israelites were troubled. See also: Ezra 4:4Isaiah 13:7Jeremiah 6:24Saul’s son had two men who were captains of raiding bands. The name of one was Baanah and the name of the other Rechab, the sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, of the children of Benjamin (for Beeroth also is considered a part of Benjamin; See also: Joshua 18:25Joshua 9:172 Samuel 3:22and the Beerothites fled to Gittaim, and have lived as foreigners there until today). See also: Nehemiah 11:331 Samuel 31:7Now Jonathan, Saul’s son, had a son who was lame in his feet. He was five years old when the news came about Saul and Jonathan out of Jezreel; and his nurse picked him up and fled. As she hurried to flee, he fell and became lame. His name was Mephibosheth. See also: 2 Samuel 9:32 Samuel 9:61 Chronicles 9:40The sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, Rechab and Baanah, went out and came at about the heat of the day to the house of Ishbosheth as he took his rest at noon. See also: Proverbs 24:33-342 Samuel 2:81 Kings 16:9They came there into the middle of the house as though they would have fetched wheat, and they struck him in the body; and Rechab and Baanah his brother escaped. See also: 2 Samuel 2:232 Samuel 3:272 Samuel 20:10Now when they came into the house as he lay on his bed in his bedroom, they struck him, killed him, beheaded him, and took his head, and went by the way of the Arabah all night. See also: Matthew 14:111 Samuel 17:541 Samuel 31:9They brought the head of Ishbosheth to David to Hebron, and said to the king, “Behold, the head of Ishbosheth, the son of Saul, your enemy, who sought your life! The LORD has avenged my lord the king today of Saul and of his offspring.” See also: 1 Samuel 25:292 Samuel 22:482 Samuel 18:31David answered Rechab and Baanah his brother, the sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, and said to them, “As the LORD lives, who has redeemed my soul out of all adversity, See also: Psalms 34:6-71 Kings 1:29Psalms 107:2when someone told me, ‘Behold, Saul is dead,’ thinking that he brought good news, I seized him and killed him in Ziklag, which was the reward I gave him for his news. See also: 2 Samuel 1:2-16How much more, when wicked men have slain a righteous person in his own house on his bed, should I not now require his blood from your hand, and rid the earth of you?” See also: Proverbs 2:22Psalms 9:12Numbers 35:31-34David commanded his young men, and they killed them, cut off their hands and their feet, and hanged them up beside the pool in Hebron. But they took the head of Ishbosheth and buried it in Abner’s grave in Hebron. See also: 2 Samuel 1:152 Samuel 3:32Deuteronomy 21:22-23
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Notes in English 19th-century Catholic commentary by Fr. George Leo Haydock, shown as published.
These notes keep the polemics of their time: some speak harshly of the Jewish people or of other Christians. The Church teaches otherwise today. The Jewish people may not be blamed for the death of Christ (Nostra Aetate 4; Catechism 597–598), and Christians of other communities are our brothers and sisters in the Lord (Unitatis Redintegratio 3). Christian unity
2 Samuel 4:1
Ver. 1. Isboseth is omitted in Heb. but understood. He is expressed in the Sept.
The Alex. copy generally substitutes Memphibosthai, by mistake; as he (Miphiboseth) was the son of Jonathan, v.
4. H. --- Weakened. Hitherto Abner had been the chief support of Saul's family.
His traitorous practices had been kept secret from Isboseth, (C.) who hoped that his former declaration had been dictated by a sudden passion, and would not be carried into effect. C. iii. 10. H. --- Troubled, not knowing what turn things would now take, and fearing the resentment of the sons of Sarvia, though they were convinced of David's good dispositions. Salien, A.C. 1067.
↑ 12 Samuel 4:2
Ver. 2. Bands, ( Latronum. ) Lit. "robbers," or people who live on plunder, like the posterity of Ismael, and of Esau. Gen. xxvii. 40. The life-guards of princes are often styled latrones, (C.) from their being stationed at their "sides," as if Laterones. M.
Fixumque latronis,
Impavidus frangit telum. Æn. xii. 7.
See Servius. Judg. xi. 3. --- Beroth was one of the towns of the Gabaonites. It is not certain that the inhabitants retired, in consequence of the persecution of Saul; but they went to the territory of Geth, or to another town of Benjamin. 2
Esd. xi. 33. C.
↑ 22 Samuel 4:3
Ver. 3. That. Heb. &c. "this day," when the historian wrote. M.
↑ 32 Samuel 4:4
Ver. 4. Miphiboseth. All from Beroth, (v. 2,) may be included within a parenthesis, being only mentioned here to let us know the state of affairs, (H.) and how the son of Jonathan could have no pretensions of the crown. Grot. C.
--- He would be almost 12 years old at the death of his uncle.
H.
↑ 42 Samuel 4:5
Ver. 5. At noon, "to divide the day," as Varro (iii. 2,) writes. This custom is very prevalent in hot countries. --- And the, &c. is all omitted in Heb. and in most ancient MSS. of S. Jerom's version.
It is taken from the Sept. (C.) who do not notice any farther the taking ears of corn, v. 6. H. ---
Probably the Heb. had this sentence formerly. D. --- It was customary to have women to keep the doors; (Mat. xxvi. 69,) and they were often employed in cleansing wheat. Petronius says, in lance argentea pisum purgabat. C. --- The ears of corn, hardly ripe, were cleansed, and used as a delicious food. T. 1 K.
xvii. 17. Sanctius.
↑ 52 Samuel 4:6
Ver. 6. Corn. Soldiers were paid with corn, instead of money. They came, therefore, under this pretext; or they brought some as a present to the king, (Liran) or pretended that they were come to purchase, (M.) or bringing a sample to sell; (T.) ut emptores tritici. Chal. Prot. " as though they would have fetched wheat, and they smote him under the fifth rib. "
↑ 62 Samuel 4:7
Ver. 7. Parlour. Heb. "bed-chamber." --- Wilderness. Avoiding places frequented. H. --- The distance was about 40 leagues, which they could not travel in one night. C. --- Adrichomius says it was 30 hours' walk. Sept. "west-ward." H.
↑ 72 Samuel 4:8
Ver. 8. Life. They wish to recall to David's remembrance what Saul had done against him, that he may approve the more of what they had perpetrated. M. ---
They supposed that, as Abner had been well received, they should obtain still greater favour. Salien.
↑ 82 Samuel 4:11
Ver. 11. Innocent. Isboseth was such, at least, in their regard. He might also have mounted his father's throne, bona fide; and, at any rate, it was not their business to decide the matter (C.) in this treacherous manner. Thus Alexander punished Bessus, who had murdered his master, Darius, with whom the former was at war. H.
↑ 112 Samuel 4:12
Ver. 12. Feet, while they were alive, (Theodoret. M.) almost as Adonibezec had treated many; (Judg. i. 6,) or they were first put to death, and the parts cut off were fastened to a cross; as the head and right hand of Cyrus were by his brother Artaxerxes. Xenop. Anab. iii. C. --- Josephus seems to be of the former opinion, saying, "he ordered them to be executed in the most excruciating torments," "while the head of Jebosthe (Isboseth) was buried with all honour."
Ant.
vii. 2. --- Thus David convinced the people that he would punish crimes, when it was in his power, and that he would give no encouragement to the treason or perfidy of any one. H.
↑ 12License: Notes by Fr. George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), from the Douay-Rheims Bible with Haydock's commentary (first ed. Thomas Haydock, Manchester/Dublin, 1811–1814; New York: Edward Dunigan & Brother, 1859); New Testament notes compiled with Fr. Benedict Rayment. Public domain. Digital text: "The Haydock Bible", Internet Archive (archive.org/details/TheHaydockBible), uploaded 2011 under the Public Domain Mark. · Credits and licenses