2 Samuel 4:7-9
New English Translation
7 They had entered[a] the house while Ish Bosheth[b] was resting on his bed in his bedroom. They mortally wounded him[c] and then cut off his head.[d] Taking his head,[e] they traveled on the way of the rift valley[f] all that night. 8 They brought the head of Ish Bosheth to David in Hebron, saying to the king, “Look! The head of Ish Bosheth son of Saul, your enemy who sought your life! The Lord has granted vengeance to my lord the king this day against[g] Saul and his descendants!”
9 David replied to Recab and his brother Baanah, the sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, “As surely as the Lord lives, who has delivered my life from all adversity,
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- 2 Samuel 4:7 tn After the concluding disjunctive clause at the end of v. 6, the author now begins a more detailed account of the murder and its aftermath.
- 2 Samuel 4:7 tn Heb “he”; the referent (Ish Bosheth) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
- 2 Samuel 4:7 tn Heb “they struck him down and killed him.” The expression is a verbal hendiadys.
- 2 Samuel 4:7 tn Heb “and they removed his head.” The Syriac Peshitta and Vulgate lack these words.
- 2 Samuel 4:7 tc The Lucianic Greek recension lacks the words “his head.”
- 2 Samuel 4:7 sn The rift valley is a large geographic feature extending form Galilee to the gulf of Aqaba. The portion in view here runs along the west of the Dead Sea.
- 2 Samuel 4:8 tn Heb “from.”
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