10 when (A)someone told me, saying, ‘Look, Saul is dead,’ thinking to have brought good news, I arrested him and had him executed in Ziklag—the one who thought I would give him a reward for his news. 11 How much more, when wicked men have killed a righteous person in his own house on his bed? Therefore, shall I not now (B)require his [a]blood at your hand and [b]remove you from the earth?” 12 So David (C)commanded his young men, and they executed them, cut off their hands and feet, and hanged them by the pool in Hebron. But they took the head of Ishbosheth and buried it in the (D)tomb of Abner in Hebron.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Samuel 4:11 Or bloodshed
  2. 2 Samuel 4:11 Lit. consume you

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