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Rechab

Time-period: David-fångenskapen (1000 – 586 f.Kr.)
Age: -
Alt. names/spellings: Rechab
Father: Rimmon
Siblings: Baanah



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Rechab H7394
רֵכָב (Rechav)
13 times in OT
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But Saul's son [Ish-Bosheth] had two men who were leaders of (separate) bands of robbers. [They had positions and duties similar to those of Joab in David's army, see 2 Sam. 3:22.]
The name of one was Baana [meaning: "to torment"]
and the name of the other was Rechav [meaning: "one who rides"],
they were sons of Rimmon, the Beerothite of the tribe of Benjamin. For Beeroth was also counted among Benjamin,
The sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, Rechab and Baanah [made a plan to murder Ish-Bosheth and] went out [from Gittaim north of Jerusalem to the city of Machanajim on the other side of the Jordan near Jabbok, see 2 Sam. 2:8]. They came to Ish-Bosheth's house [palace] when the day was hottest [around three o'clock in the afternoon] as he was taking his afternoon nap [siesta after lunch].
And they came close, into the middle of the house as if they were going to fetch wheat [in an inner storeroom]. And they struck (stabbed – Hebr. naka) him [Ish-Bosheth] in the chest (abdomen, "the fifth" – Hebr. chomesh) and Rechav and his brother Baana fled.
[As military leaders, Rechav and Baana could fetch rations of wheat for their subordinates; they had surely done this before. Now they used this reason as a pretext to enter the central parts of the palace. The Greek translation Septuagint states that "the female gatekeeper was threshing wheat, but had fallen asleep," which allowed them to enter unnoticed. Ish-Bosheth is killed in a similar manner to Asahel and Avner, see 2 Sam. 2:23; 3:27. Hebrew chomesh means five, and may refer to the fifth "rib," i.e., in the heart of the chest. In 2 Sam. 20:10, the result is that the entrails spilled out, which indicates that it is the lower part of the chest toward the abdomen that is meant.]
But David answered Rechab and his brother Baanah, the sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, and said to them, "As the Lord (Yahweh) lives, who has delivered my soul from every adversity [1 Kings 1:29].