2 Samuel 4:7-9
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition
7 Now they had come into the house while he was lying on his couch in his bedchamber; they attacked him, killed him, and beheaded him. Then they took his head and travelled by way of the Arabah all night long. 8 They brought the head of Ishbaal[a] to David at Hebron and said to the king, ‘Here is the head of Ishbaal,[b] son of Saul your enemy who sought your life; the Lord has avenged my lord the king this day on Saul and on his offspring.’
9 David answered Rechab and his brother Baanah, the sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, ‘As the Lord lives, who has redeemed my life out of every adversity,
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- 2 Samuel 4:8 Heb Ish-bosheth
- 2 Samuel 4:8 Heb Ish-bosheth
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