John Gill's Bible Commentary Ver. 2. And Saul’s son had two men [that were] captains of bands , etc.] Of troops in the army, or of guards about the person of Ishbosheth son of Saul: the name of the one [was] Baanah, and the name of the other Rechab, the sons of Rimmon a Beerothite, of the children of Benjamin ; so that these men were brethren in nature, as well as in iniquity; they had the same father, who is described by his name and city, and their names are expressly mentioned and recorded to their infamy; and they were not only the servants of Ishbosheth, who had commissions under him, but were of the same tribe with him; all which is observed as an aggravation of their crime: for Beeroth also was reckoned to Benjamin ; the place from whom Rimmon their father is denominated, and where he dwelt, as well as Gittaim, where they had sojourned, as in ( 2 Samuel 4:3). This place, Beeroth, originally belonged to the Gibeonites, and fell to the lot of Benjamin at the division of the land, (see Joshua 9:17 18:25).
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 1-7 - See how Ishbosheth was murdered! When those difficulties dispirit us which should sharpen our endeavours, we betray both our heavenly crown and our earthly lives. Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty an ruin. The idle soul is an easy prey to the destroyer. We know not when and where death will meet us. When we lie down to sleep, we are no sure that we may not sleep the sleep of death before we awake; nor d we know from what hand the death-blow may come.
Original Hebrew ושׁני8147 אנשׁים376 שׂרי8269 גדודים1416 היו1961 בן1121 שׁאול7586 שׁם8034 האחד259 בענה1196 ושׁם8034 השׁני8145 רכב7394 בני1121 רמון7417 הבארתי886 מבני1121 בנימן1144 כי3588 גם1571 בארות881 תחשׁב2803 על5921 בנימן׃1144
