2 Samuel 4:7

So after they entered the house, they attacked him and killed him as he was lying on his bed in his room. Then they cut off his head and carried it away, traveling on the road all night to the Arabah.

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For when they came into the house, he lay on his bed in his bedchamber, and they smote him, and slew him, and beheaded him, and took his head, and gat them away through the plain all night.

In Context

6The woman guarding the door had fallen asleep while sifting wheat, and Recab and Baanah walked in quietly and passed her.

8They brought the head of Ishbosheth to David at Hebron, and they said to the king, “Look, this is the head of Ishbosheth son of Saul, your enemy, who sought your life. Today Yahweh has avenged our master the king against Saul and his descendants.”

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Cross References

1 Samuel 17:54David took the head of the Philistine and brought it to Jerusalem, but he put his armor in his tent.

2 Samuel 2:29Abner and his men traveled all that night through the Arabah. They crossed the Jordan, marched all the next morning, and then reached Mahanaim.

Matthew 14:11Then his head was brought on a platter and given to the girl and she took it to her mother.

Matthew Henry on 2 Samuel 4:2-9

Ish-bosheth Slain by His Servants. ( b. c. 1048.) 1 And when Saul's son heard that Abner was dead in Hebron, his hands were feeble, and all the Israelites were troubled. 2 And Saul's son had two men that were captains of bands: the name of the one was Baanah, and the name of the other Rechab, the sons of Rimmon a Beerothite, of the children of Benjamin: (for Beeroth also was reckoned to Benjamin: 3 And the Beerothites fled to Gittaim, and were sojourners there until this day.) 4 And Jonathan, Saul's son, had a son… Read the whole commentary →

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