Baanah

Baanah (meaning in affliction or son of affliction) is the name of several men in the Old Testament. The most prominent were the two sons of Rimmon the Beerothite — Baanah and Rechab — captains of raiding parties under Ish-bosheth, Saul's surviving son. They murdered Ish-bosheth as he lay on his bed at midday and brought his head to David at Hebron, expecting reward. Instead David had them both executed, their hands and feet cut off and hung by the pool of Hebron (2 Samuel 4:5–12). David's response demonstrated that he had not sought the throne through violence against Saul's house.

Other men named Baanah include one of David's thirty warriors (2 Samuel 23:29; 1 Chronicles 11:30), an ancestor of a family that returned from exile with Zerubbabel (Ezra 2:2; Nehemiah 7:7), and one of those who sealed the covenant under Nehemiah (Nehemiah 10:27).