2 Samuel 4:8-11

4:8 They 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 ¹  Saul and his descendants!”

4:9 David 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, 4:10 when someone told me that Saul was dead – even though he thought he was bringing good news ²  – I seized him and killed him in Ziklag. That was the good news I gave to him! 4:11 Surely when wicked men have killed an innocent man as he slept ³  in his own house, should I not now require his blood from your hands and remove ⁴  you from the earth?”

¹ tn Heb “from.”

² tn Heb “and he was like a bearer of good news in his eyes.”

³ tn Heb “on his bed.”

⁴ tn See HALOT 146 s.v. II בער. Some derive the verb from a homonym meaning “to burn; to consume.”