2 Samuel 2:24

2:24 So Joab and Abishai chased Abner. At sunset they came to the hill of Ammah near Giah on the way to the wilderness of Gibeon.

2 Samuel 4:7

4:7 They 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 Arabah all that night.

2 Samuel 15:23

15:23 All the land was weeping loudly as all these people were leaving. As the king was crossing over the Kidron Valley, all the people were leaving on the road that leads to the desert.


tn After the concluding disjunctive clause at the end of v. 6, the author now begins a more detailed account of the murder and its aftermath.

tn Heb “he”; the referent (Ish-bosheth) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

tn Heb “they struck him down and killed him.” The expression is a verbal hendiadys.

tn Heb “and they removed his head.” The Syriac Peshitta and Vulgate lack these words.

tc The Lucianic Greek recension lacks the words “his head.”

tn Heb “with a great voice.”

tn Heb “crossing over.”

tn Heb “crossing near the face of.”