2 Samuel 4:8 BSB — MannaFest

2 Samuel 4:8

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

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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.

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Commentary

3 voices

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

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

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The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

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.

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

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.

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Original language & word study

31 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וַ֠יָּבִאוּ	Vai.ya.vi.'u	and they brought	H935 →
אֶת־	'et-	<obj.>	H853 →
רֹ֨אשׁ	rosh	[the] head of	H7218 →
אִֽישׁ־	'ish-	Ish-	H378 →
בֹּ֥שֶׁת	Bo.shet	bosheth	H378 →
אֶל־	'el-	to	H413 →
דָּוִד֮	da.Vid	David	H1732 →
חֶבְרוֹן֒	chev.rOn	Hebron	H2275 →
וַיֹּֽאמְרוּ֙	vai.yo.me.Ru	and they said	H559 →
אֶל־	'el-	to	H413 →
הַמֶּ֔לֶךְ	ha.Me.lekh	the king	H4428 →
הִנֵּֽה־	hi.neh-	here!	H2009 →
רֹ֣אשׁ	rosh	[the] head of	H7218 →
אִֽישׁ־	'ish-	Ish-	H378 →
בֹּ֗שֶׁת	Bo.shet	bosheth	H378 →
בֶּן־	ben-	[the] son of	H1121 →
שָׁאוּל֙	sha.'Ul	Saul	H7586 →
אֹֽיִבְךָ֔	'o.yiv.Kha	enemy your	H341 →
אֲשֶׁ֥ר	'a.Sher	who	H834 →
בִּקֵּ֖שׁ	bi.Kesh	he sought	H1245 →
אֶת־	'et-	<obj.>	H853 →
נַפְשֶׁ֑ךָ	naf.She.kha	life your	H5315 →
וַיִּתֵּ֣ן	vai.yi.Ten	and he has given	H5414 →
יְ֠הוָה	Yah.weh	Yahweh	H3068 →
לַֽאדֹנִ֨י	la.do.Ni	to lord my	H113 →
הַמֶּ֤לֶךְ	ha.Me.lekh	the king	H4428 →
נְקָמוֹת֙	ne.ka.mOt	vengeance<s>	H5360 →
הַיּ֣וֹם	hai.Yom	the day	H3117 →
הַזֶּ֔ה	ha.Zeh	<the> this	H2088 →
מִשָּׁא֖וּל	mi.sha.'Ul	from Saul	H7586 →
וּמִזַּרְעֽוֹ׃ ס	u.mi.zar.'O	and from offspring his	H2233 →

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Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

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?”
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…
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.

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