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2 Samuel 4:7-9
Lexham English Bible
2 Samuel 4:7-9
Lexham English Bible
7 When they had come into the house, he was lying on his couch in his bedchamber,[a] and they attacked him and killed him. Then they beheaded him,[b] and they took his head and went on the way of the Arabah all night. 8 They brought the head of Ish-Bosheth to David at Hebron, and they said to the king, “Here is the head of Ish-Bosheth, the son of Saul your enemy, who sought your life. Yahweh has given to my lord the king vengeance this day on Saul and on his offspring.” 9 Then David answered Recab and Baanah his brother, the sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, and he said to them, “As Yahweh lives,[c] who redeemed my soul from all trouble,
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- 2 Samuel 4:7 Literally “in the room of his lying”
- 2 Samuel 4:7 Literally “they took away his head”
- 2 Samuel 4:9 Literally “The life of Yahweh”
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