2 Samuel 4:7-9

New American Standard Bible 1995

⁷ Now when they came into the house, as he was lying on his bed in his bedroom, they struck him and killed him and beheaded him. And they took his head and ^[a](A)traveled by way of the Arabah all night. ⁸ Then they brought the head of Ish-bosheth to David at Hebron and said to the king, “Behold, the head of Ish-bosheth ^(B)the son of Saul, your enemy, who sought your life; thus the Lord has given my lord the king vengeance this day on Saul and his ^[b]descendants.”

⁹ David answered Rechab and Baanah his brother, sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, and said to them, “As the Lord lives, ^(C)who has redeemed my life from all distress,