2 Samuel 4:8-12

⁸They brought the head of Ish-bosheth to David at Hebron and said to the king, “Here is the head of Ish-bosheth son of Saul, your enemy who sought your life. Today the LORD has granted vengeance to my lord the king against Saul and his offspring.”

⁹But David answered Rechab and his brother Baanah, the sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, “As surely as the LORD lives, who has redeemed my life from all distress,

¹⁰when someone told me, ‘Look, Saul is dead,’ and thought he was a bearer of good news, I seized him and put him to death at Ziklag. That was his reward for his news!

¹¹How much more, when wicked men kill a righteous man in his own house and on his own bed, shall I not now require his blood from your hands and remove you from the earth!”

¹²So David commanded his young men, and they killed Rechab and Baanah. They cut off their hands and feet and hung their bodies by the pool in Hebron, but they took the head of Ish-bosheth and buried it in Abner’s tomb in Hebron.

— 2 Samuel 4:8-12

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Cross References for 2 Samuel 4:8-12

• 1 Kings 1:29
• Psalm 34:6-7
• Genesis 48:16
• Psalm 107:2
• Psalm 34:17
• Psalm 103:4
• 2 Samuel 1:2-16
• 2 Samuel 1:15
• 1 Samuel 25:29
• Psalm 71:23

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