2 Samuel 4:6-8

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition

⁶ They came inside the house as though to take wheat,^[a] and they struck him in the stomach; then Rechab and his brother Baanah escaped.^{(A) 7} Now they had come into the house while he was lying on his couch in his bedchamber; they attacked him, killed him, and beheaded him. Then they took his head and traveled by way of the Arabah all night long. ⁸ They brought the head of Ishbaal^[b] to David at Hebron and said to the king, “Here is the head of Ishbaal^[c] son of Saul, your enemy who sought your life; the Lord has avenged my lord the king this day on Saul and on his offspring.”^(B)