2 Samuel 4:7

4:7 They had entered¹ the house while Ish-bosheth² was resting on his bed in his bedroom. They mortally wounded him³ 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 slept⁶ in his own house, should I not now require his blood from your hands and remove⁷ 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

2 Samuel 13:5

13:5 Jonadab replied to him, “Lie down on your bed and pretend to be sick.¹⁰ When your father comes in to see you, say to him, ‘Please let my sister Tamar come in so she can fix some food for me. Let her prepare the food in my sight so I can watch. Then I will eat from her hand.’”

¹tn 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.

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

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

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

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

⁶tn Heb “on his bed.”

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

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

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

¹⁶tn This verb is used in the Hitpael stem only in this chapter of the Hebrew Bible. With the exception of v. 2 it describes not a real sickness but one pretended in order to entrap Tamar. The Hitpael sometimes, as here, describes the subject making oneself appear to be of a certain character. On this use of the stem, see GKC 149-50 §54.e.