2 Samuel 4:7

4:7 They had entered ¹  the house while Ish-bosheth ²  was resting on his bed in his bedroom. They mortally wounded him ³  and then cut off his head. ⁴  Taking his head, ⁵  they traveled on the way of the Arabah all that night.

2 Samuel 4:11

4:11 Surely when wicked men have killed an innocent man as he slept ⁶  in his own house, should I not now require his blood from your hands and remove ⁷  you from the earth?”

2 Samuel 11:2

11:2 One evening David got up from his bed and walked around on the roof of his palace. ⁸  From the roof he saw a woman bathing. Now this woman was very attractive. ⁹ 

¹ 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.

² tn Heb “he”; the referent (Ish-bosheth) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

³ tn Heb “they struck him down and killed him.” The expression is a verbal hendiadys.

⁴ tn Heb “and they removed his head.” The Syriac Peshitta and Vulgate lack these words.

⁵ tc The Lucianic Greek recension lacks the words “his head.”

⁶ tn Heb “on his bed.”

⁷ tn See HALOT 146 s.v. II בער. Some derive the verb from a homonym meaning “to burn; to consume.”

¹¹ tn Heb “on the roof of the house of the king.” So also in vv. 8, 9.

¹² tn The disjunctive clause highlights this observation and builds the tension of the story.