¹⁶ So David said to him, ^(A)“Your blood is on your own head, for ^(B)your own mouth has testified against you, saying, ‘I have killed the Lord’s anointed.’ ”

²⁸ Afterward, when David heard it, he said, “My kingdom and I are ^[a]guiltless before the Lord forever of the blood of Abner the son of Ner.

^29 (A)Let it rest on the head of Joab and on all his father’s house; and let there never fail to be in the ^[a]house of Joab one ^(B)who has a discharge or is a leper, who leans on a staff or falls by the sword, or who lacks bread.”

¹¹ How much more, when wicked men have killed a righteous person in his own house on his bed? Therefore, shall I not now ^(A)require his ^[a]blood at your hand and ^[b]remove you from the earth?”

¹² So David ^(A)commanded his young men, and they executed them, cut off their hands and feet, and hanged them by the pool in Hebron. But they took the head of Ishbosheth and buried it in the ^(B)tomb of Abner in Hebron.