SEV Biblia, Chapter 4:2
Y tenía el hijo de Saúl dos varones, los cuales eran capitanes de compañía, el nombre de uno era Baana, y el del otro Recab, hijos de Rimón beerotita, de los hijos de Benjamín (porque Beerot era contada con Benjamín;
Clarke's Bible Commentary - 2 Samuel 4:2
Verse 2. Captains of bands] Principes latronum, captains of banditti, says the Vulgate; the Syriac is the same. Whether Ish-bosheth kept bands of marauders, whose business it was to make sudden incursions into the country places, and carry off grain, provisions, cattle, &c., we know not; but such persons would be well qualified for the bloody work in which these two men were afterwards employed.
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
ושׁני 8147 אנשׁים 376 שׂרי 8269 גדודים 1416 היו 1961 בן 1121 שׁאול 7586 שׁם 8034 האחד 259 בענה 1196 ושׁם 8034 השׁני 8145 רכב 7394 בני 1121 רמון 7417 הבארתי 886 מבני 1121 בנימן 1144 כי 3588 גם 1571 בארות 881 תחשׁב 2803 על 5921 בנימן׃ 1144
