2 Samuel 4 (NET)

2 Samuel 4:1¹When Ish Bosheth the son of Saul heard that Abner had died in Hebron, he was very disheartened, and all Israel was afraid.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ezra 4:4Isa 13:7Jer 6:242 Sam 17:22 Sam 3:27Isa 35:3Jer 50:43Matt 2:2-3Neh 6:9Zeph 3:16

2 Samuel 4:2²Now Saul’s son had two men who were in charge of raiding units; one was named Baanah and the other Recab. They were sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, who was a Benjaminite. (Beeroth is regarded as belonging to Benjamin,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Josh 18:25Josh 9:172 Kgs 5:22 Kgs 6:232 Sam 3:22

2 Samuel 4:3³for the Beerothites fled to Gittaim and have remained there as resident foreigners until the present time.)Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Neh 11:331 Sam 31:7

2 Samuel 4:4⁴Now Saul’s son Jonathan had a son who was crippled in both feet. He was five years old when the news about Saul and Jonathan arrived from Jezreel. His nurse picked him up and fled, but in her haste to get away, he fell and was injured. Mephibosheth was his name.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Sam 9:31 Chr 9:402 Sam 9:61 Chr 8:341 Sam 29:11 Sam 29:111 Sam 31:1-10

2 Samuel 4:5⁵Now the sons of Rimmon the Beerothite—Recab and Baanah—went at the hottest part of the day to the home of Ish Bosheth, as he was enjoying his midday rest.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Prov 24:33-341 Kgs 16:91 Thess 5:3-72 Chr 24:252 Chr 25:272 Sam 11:22 Sam 2:82 Chr 33:24

2 Samuel 4:6⁶They entered the house under the pretense of getting wheat and mortally wounded him in the stomach. Then Recab and his brother Baanah escaped.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Sam 2:232 Sam 20:102 Sam 3:27

2 Samuel 4:7⁷They had entered the house while Ish Bosheth was resting on his bed in his bedroom. They mortally wounded him and then cut off his head. Taking his head, they traveled on the way of the rift valley all that night.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Sam 17:541 Sam 31:92 Kgs 10:6-72 Sam 2:29Mark 6:28-29Matt 14:11

2 Samuel 4:8⁸They brought the head of Ish Bosheth to David in Hebron, saying to the king, “Look! The head of Ish Bosheth son of Saul, your enemy who sought your life! The Lord has granted vengeance to my lord the king this day against Saul and his descendants!”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Sam 25:292 Sam 22:481 Sam 18:111 Sam 19:151 Sam 19:2-111 Sam 20:11 Sam 23:151 Sam 24:42 Sam 18:192 Sam 18:31

2 Samuel 4:9⁹David replied to Recab and his brother Baanah, the sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, “As surely as the Lord lives, who has delivered my life from all adversity,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Kgs 1:29Gen 48:16Ps 107:2Ps 34:6-7Ps 103:4Ps 34:17Ps 31:5-7Ps 34:22Ps 71:232 Tim 4:17-18

2 Samuel 4:10¹⁰when someone told me that Saul was dead—even though he thought he was bringing good news —I seized him and killed him in Ziklag. That was the good news I gave to him!Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Sam 1:2-16

2 Samuel 4:11¹¹Surely when wicked men have killed an innocent man as he slept in his own house, should I not now require his blood from your hands and remove you from the earth?”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ps 9:12Gen 9:5-6Num 35:31-34Prov 2:221 John 3:121 Kgs 2:322 Sam 3:272 Sam 3:39Exod 21:12Exod 9:15

2 Samuel 4:12¹²So David issued orders to the soldiers and they put them to death. Then they cut off their hands and feet and hung them near the pool in Hebron. But they took the head of Ish Bosheth and buried it in the tomb of Abner in Hebron.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Sam 1:152 Sam 3:322 Sam 21:9Deut 21:22-23Matt 7:2Ps 55:23