1When Saul’s son heard that Abner was dead in Hebron, his hands became feeble, and all the Israelites were troubled. 2Saul’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; 3and the Beerothites fled to Gittaim, and have lived as foreigners there until today).

4Now 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.

5The 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. 6They 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. 7Now 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. 8They 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! Yahweh has avenged my lord the king today of Saul and of his offspring.”

9David answered Rechab and Baanah his brother, the sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, and said to them, “As Yahweh lives, who has redeemed my soul out of all adversity, 10when 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. 11How 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?” 12David 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.

Person

Joseph (Mary's Husband)

Father Jacob

Spouse Mary (Mother of Jesus)

Children Jude Jesus Christ Simon Joses James (Brother of Jesus)

Biography | Jeffrey Kershner

Joseph is known for being a “just man” (Matt 1:19) and for quickly and wholeheartedly responding to God’s guidance in regard to raising Jesus. When he sought to secretly divorce Mary he was told by an angel to marry her and obeyed the angel’s command. When Herod issued the order to murder all the infant boys in Bethlehem, an angel told Joseph to flee to Egypt, which he obeyed immediately (Matt 2:13-15). He kept his family safe in Egypt until an angel told him it was safe to return to Israel. Joseph and Mary took Jesus to the temple to be circumcised, and went to Jerusalem for Passover each year with friends and relatives (Luke 2:41), in obedience to Mosaic Law. By trade he was a construction worker, a more accurate translation of the Greek word (Mark 6:3), but near the time of the birth of Jesus was considered poor enough to offer two doves as a sacrifice rather than a goat or bull (Luke 2:24). Joseph is not mentioned after Jesus' twelfth year and probably died sometime between then and when Jesus began His ministry (Nixon, "Joseph in the New Testament" 610).

Person & place data: Theographic Bible Metadata by Robert Rouse (Viz.Bible), CC BY-SA 4.0.