2 Samuel 4:12
“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 Ish–bosheth, and buried it in the sepulchre of Abner in Hebron.”
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:
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?
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 Ish–bosheth, and buried it in the sepulchre of Abner in Hebron.
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“And if a man have committed a sin worthy of death, and he be to be put to death, and thou hang him on a tree:”
“For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again.”
“And if a man have committed a sin worthy of death, and he be to be put to death, and thou hang him on a tree:”
“And they buried Abner in Hebron: and the king lifted up his voice, and wept at the grave of Abner; and all the people wept.”
“And David called one of the young men, and said, Go near, and fall upon him. And he smote him that he died.”