¹⁶ And David said to him, “^[a](A)Your blood is on your head, because ^(B)your own mouth has testified against you, saying, ‘I have finished off the Lord’s anointed.’”

²⁸ Afterward, when David heard about this, he said, “I and my kingdom are innocent before the Lord forever of the blood of Abner the son of Ner. ^29 (A)May it turn upon the head of Joab and on all his father’s house; and may there not be eliminated from the house of Joab ^(B)someone who suffers a discharge, or has leprosy, or ^[a]holds the spindle, or falls by the sword, or lacks bread.”

¹¹ How much more, when wicked men have killed a righteous man in his own house on his bed, shall I not now ^(A)require his blood from your hands and eliminate you both from the earth?” ¹² Then ^(B)David commanded the young men, and they killed them and cut off their hands and feet, and hung them up beside the pool in Hebron. But they took the head of Ish-bosheth ^(C)and buried it in the grave of Abner in Hebron.