10:004:007 For when they came into the house, he lay
on his bed in his
bedchamber,
and they smote him, and slew him, and beheaded
him,
and took his head, and gat them away through the plain
all
night.
10:004:008 And they brought the head of Ishbosheth
unto David to Hebron,
and
said to the king, Behold the head of Ishbosheth 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.
10:004:009 And David answered Rechab and Baanah his
brother, the sons of
Rimmon
the Beerothite, and said unto them, As the lord
liveth,
who
hath redeemed my soul out of all adversity,
10:004:010 When one told me, saying, Behold, Saul
is dead, thinking to
have
brought good tidings, I took hold of him, and slew
him in
Ziklag,
who thought that I would have given him a reward for
his
tidings:
10:004:011 How much more, when wicked men have slain
a righteous person
in
his own house upon his bed? shall I not therefore now
require
his blood of your hand, and take you away from the
earth?
10:004:012 And David commanded his young men, and
they slew them, and cut
off
their hands and their feet, and hanged them up over
the
pool
in Hebron. But they took the head of Ishbosheth,
and
buried
it in the sepulchre of Abner in Hebron.
10:005:001 Then came all the tribes of Israel to David
unto Hebron, and
spake,
saying, Behold, we are thy bone and thy flesh.
10:005:002 Also in time past, when Saul was king over
us, thou wast he
that
leddest out and broughtest in Israel: and the
lord said
to
thee, Thou shalt feed my people Israel, and thou shalt
be a
captain
over Israel.
10:005:003 So all the elders of Israel came to the
king to Hebron; and
king
David made a league with them in Hebron before the
lord:
and
they anointed David king over Israel.
10:005:004 David was thirty years old when he began
to reign, and he
reigned
forty years.
10:005:005 In Hebron he reigned over Judah seven years
and six months:
and
in Jerusalem he reigned thirty and three years over
all
Israel
and Judah.
10:005:006 And the king and his men went to Jerusalem
unto the Jebusites,
the
inhabitants of the land: which spake unto David,
saying,
Except
thou take away the blind and the lame, thou shalt not
come
in hither: thinking, David cannot come in hither.
10:005:007 Nevertheless David took the strong hold
of Zion: the same is
the
city of David.


