³¹ And he brought out the people who were in it and set them to labor with saws and iron picks and iron axes and made them toil at^[a] the brick kilns. And thus he did to all the cities of the Ammonites. Then David and all the people returned to Jerusalem.

⁹ But David answered Rechab and Baanah his brother, the sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, ^(A)“As the Lord lives, ^(B)who has redeemed my life out of every adversity, ^10 (C)when one told me, ‘Behold, Saul is dead,’ and thought he was bringing good news, ^(D)I seized him and killed him at Ziklag, which was the reward I gave him for his news. ¹¹ How much more, when wicked men have killed a righteous man in his own house on his bed, shall I not now ^(E)require his blood at your hand and destroy you from the earth?” ¹² And David commanded his young men, and they killed them and cut off their hands and feet and hanged them beside the pool at Hebron. But they took the head of Ish-bosheth and buried it ^(F)in the tomb of Abner at Hebron.