2 Samuel 4:7-9

Lexham English Bible

⁷ When they had come into the house, he was lying on his couch in his bedchamber,^[a] and they attacked him and killed him. Then they beheaded him,^[b] and they took his head and went on the way of the Arabah all night. ⁸ They brought the head of Ish-Bosheth to David at Hebron, and they said to the king, “Here is the head of Ish-Bosheth, the son of Saul your enemy, who sought your life. Yahweh has given to my lord the king vengeance this day on Saul and on his offspring.” ⁹ Then David answered Recab and Baanah his brother, the sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, and he said to them, “As Yahweh lives,^[c] who redeemed my soul from all trouble,