2 Samuel 4:7

Thus they entered the house when, he, was lying on his bed, in his sleeping-chamber, and smote him, and slew him, and beheaded him,—and took his head, and journeyed by way of the waste plain all the night;

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

In The King James Version

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

6and, thither, entered they as fro as the middle of the house, to fetch wheat, and they smote him in the belly,—and, Rechab and Baanah his brother, escaped.

8and brought in the head of Ish-bosheth unto David, at Hebron, and said unto the king, Lo! the head of Ish-bosheth son of Saul, thine enemy, who sought thy life: so hath Yahweh given to my lord the king, avengement this day, on Saul and on his seed.

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Cross References

1 Samuel 17:54And David took the head of the Philistine, and brought it into Jerusalem,—but, his armour, put he into his tent.

2 Samuel 2:29And, Abner and his men, journeyed through the waste plain all that night,—and crossed the Jordan, and went through all the Bithron, and entered Mahanaim.

Matthew 14:11And his head was brought upon a charger, and given unto the maiden, and she brought 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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