2 Samuel is part of the Narrower Canon of the Ethiopian Bible, meaning it is included in the standard 66-book canon. The text follows the World English Bible (WEB) translation and is identical to the standard Protestant canon.
2 Samuel
Chapter 4
When Ishbosheth, Saul's son, heard that Abner was dead in Hebron, his hands became feeble, and all the Israelites were troubled.
Ishbosheth, Saul's son, had two men who were captains of raiding bands. The name of the 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 counted as part of Benjamin;
and the Beerothites fled to Gittaim, and have lived as foreigners there to this day).
Now Jonathan, Saul's son, had a son who was lame of his feet. He was five years old when the news came of Saul and Jonathan from Jezreel; and his nurse took him up and fled. As she hurried to flee, he fell and became lame. His name was Mephibosheth.
The sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, Rechab and Baanah, went and came at about the heat of the day to the house of Ishbosheth, as he was taking his midday rest.
They came there into the middle of the house, as though they would have fetched wheat; and they struck him in the body. Then Rechab and Baanah his brother escaped.
Now when they came into the house, as he lay on his bed in his bedroom, they struck him and killed him, and beheaded him, and took his head, and went by the way of the Arabah all night.
They brought the head of Ishbosheth to David in 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."
David 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,
when someone told me, 'Behold, Saul is dead,' thinking to have brought good news, I seized him and killed him in Ziklag, which was the reward I gave him for his news.
How 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?"
David 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.