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They brought the head of Ish-bosheth to David at Hebron, and said to the king, “Look, the head of Ish-bosheth the son of Saul, your enemy, who sought your life; thus the Lord has granted my lord the king vengeance this day on Saul and on his descendants.”

David replied to Rechab and Baanah his brother, the sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, and said to them, “As the Lord lives, who has redeemed my life from every adversity, 10 when a man told me, ‘Behold, Saul is dead,’ [a]thinking that he was bringing good news, I seized and killed him in Ziklag, to reward him for his news.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Samuel 4:10 Lit as one who brings good news in his own eyes.

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