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2 Samuel 4:8

in 2 Samuel 4

They 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.”

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

And they brought the head of Ish-bosheth unto David to Hebron, and said to the king, Behold, the head of Ish-bosheth, the son of Saul, thine enemy, who sought thy life; and Jehovah hath avenged my lord the king this day of Saul, and of his seed.

KJV

And they brought the head of Ish–bosheth unto David to Hebron, and said to the king, Behold the head of Ish–bosheth the son of Saul thine enemy, which sought thy life; and the Lord hath avenged my lord the king this day of Saul, and of his seed.

This verse in 2 Samuel 4

Commentary

5 notes on this verse

A commentator

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible · Written before 1832.

They brought the head - unto David - They thought, as did the poor lying Amalekite, to ingratiate themselves with David by this abominable act.

This site's exposition

They brought the head of Ish-bosheth to David at Hebron

Rechab and Baanah bring the head expecting the payment Saul's death earned at Ziklag. “Today the LORD has granted vengeance to my lord the king against Saul and his offspring”. Clarke and Jamieson, Fausset and Brown read this as the common coin such men expected a rival's death to buy.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

Sentence passed upon them. There needed no evidence, their own tongues witnessed against them; they were so far from denying the fact that they gloried in it. David therefore shows them the heinousness of the crime, and that blood called for blood from his hand, who was now the chief magistrate, and was by office the avenger of blood.
And they brought the head of Ishbosheth unto David to Hebron,....

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

They brought the head of Ish-bosheth unto David . . . and said, Behold the head of Ish-bosheth--Such bloody trophies of rebels and conspirators have always been acceptable to princes in the East, and the carriers have been liberally rewarded.

The words behind it

31 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • וַ֠יָּבִאוּand they brought

    vaiyaviuH935 →2568 times

  • אֶת־<obj.>

    ʾet-H853 →10935 times

  • רֹ֨אשׁ[the] head of

    roshH7218 →599 times

  • אִֽישׁ־Ish-

    ʾish-H378 →22 times

  • בֹּ֥שֶׁתbosheth

    boshetH378 →22 times

  • אֶל־to

    ʾel-H413 →5510 times

  • דָּוִד֮David

    davidH1732 →999 times

  • חֶבְרוֹן֒Hebron

    chevronH2275 →72 times

  • וַיֹּֽאמְרוּ֙and they said

    vaiyomeruH559 →5305 times

  • אֶל־to

    ʾel-H413 →5510 times

  • הַמֶּ֔לֶךְthe king

    hamelekhH4428 →2525 times

  • הִנֵּֽה־here!

    hineh-H2009 →843 times

  • רֹ֣אשׁ[the] head of

    roshH7218 →599 times

  • אִֽישׁ־Ish-

    ʾish-H378 →22 times

  • בֹּ֗שֶׁתbosheth

    boshetH378 →22 times

  • בֶּן־[the] son of

    ben-H1121 →4930 times

  • שָׁאוּל֙Saul

    shaulH7586 →402 times

  • אֹֽיִבְךָ֔enemy your

    ʾoyivkhaH341 →282 times

  • אֲשֶׁ֥רwho

    ʾasherH834 →5497 times

  • בִּקֵּ֖שׁhe sought

    bikeshH1245 →225 times

  • אֶת־<obj.>

    ʾet-H853 →10935 times

  • נַפְשֶׁ֑ךָlife your

    nafshekhaH5315 →754 times

  • וַיִּתֵּ֣ןand he has given

    vaiyitenH5414 →2011 times

  • יְ֠הוָהYahweh

    yahwehH3068 →6520 times

  • לַֽאדֹנִ֨יto lord my

    ladoniH113 →333 times

  • הַמֶּ֤לֶךְthe king

    hamelekhH4428 →2525 times

  • נְקָמוֹת֙vengeance<s>

    nekamotH5360 →

  • הַיּ֣וֹםthe day

    haiyomH3117 →2304 times

  • הַזֶּ֔ה<the> this

    hazehH2088 →1180 times

  • מִשָּׁא֖וּלfrom Saul

    mishaulH7586 →402 times

  • וּמִזַּרְעֽוֹ׃ סand from offspring his

    umizaroH2233 →229 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

The walk

8 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    Revelation 6:10

    And they cried out in a loud voice, “How long, O Lord, holy and true, until You avenge our blood and judge those who dwell upon the earth?”

    it leads to

    • Revelation 19:2

      For His judgments are true and just. He has judged the great prostitute who corrupted the earth with her immorality. He has avenged the blood of His servants that was poured out by her…

    • Revelation 11:18

      The nations were enraged, and Your wrath has come. The time has come to judge the dead and to reward Your servants the prophets, as well as the saints and those who fear Your…

    • Psalms 9:12

      For the Avenger of bloodshed remembers; He does not ignore the cry of the afflicted.

    • Romans 12:19

      Do not avenge yourselves, beloved, but leave room for God’s wrath. For it is written: “Vengeance is Mine; I will repay, says the Lord.”

    • 2 Thessalonians 1:6–8

      After all, it is only right for God to repay with affliction those who afflict you,

  • Through

    1 Samuel 25:29

    And should someone pursue you and seek your life, then the life of my lord will be bound securely by the LORD your God in the bundle of the living. But He shall fling…

    it leads to

    • John 17:21

      that all of them may be one, as You, Father, are in Me, and I am in You. May they also be in Us, so that the world may believe that You sent Me.

    • Matthew 10:29–30

      Are not two sparrows sold for a penny? Yet not one of them will fall to the ground apart from the will of your Father.

    • Malachi 3:17

      “They will be Mine,” says the LORD of Hosts, “on the day when I prepare My treasured possession. And I will spare them as a man spares his own son who serves him.

Where this verse is studied

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About 2 Samuel

This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.