ur, and they struck him and killed him and taking away his head
they went off by the way of the wilderness, walking all night.

4:8. And they brought the head of Isboseth to David to Hebron: and they
said to the king: Behold the head of Isboseth the son of Saul thy enemy
who sought thy life: and the Lord hath revenged my lord the king this
day of Saul, and of his seed.

4:9. But David answered Rechab, and Baana his brother, the sons of
Remmon the Berothite, and said to them: As the Lord liveth, who hath
delivered my soul out of all distress,

4:10. The man that told me, and said: Saul is dead, who thought he
brought good tidings, I apprehended, and slew him in Siceleg, who should
have been rewarded for his news.

4:11. How much more now when wicked men have slain an innocent man in
his own house, upon his bed, shall I not require his blood at your hand,
and take you away from the earth?

4:12. And David commanded his servants and they slew them: and cutting
off their hands and feet, hanged them up over the pool in Hebron: but
the head of Isboseth they took and buried in the sepulchre of Abner in
Hebron.

2 Kings Chapter 5

David is anointed king of all Israel. He taketh Jerusalem, and dwelleth
there. He defeateth the Philistines.

5:1. Then all the tribes of Israel came to David in Hebron, saying:
Behold we are thy bone and thy flesh.

5:2. Moreover yesterday also and the day before, when Saul was king over
us, thou wast he that did lead out and bring in Israel: and the Lord
said to thee: Thou shalt feed my people Israel, and thou shalt be prince
over Israel.

5:3. The ancients also of Israel came to the king of Hebron, and king
David made a league with them in Hebron before the Lord: and they
anointed David to be king over Israel.

5:4. David was thirty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned
forty years.

5:5. In Hebron he reigned over Juda seven years and six months: and in
Jerusalem he reigned three and thirty years over all Israel and Juda.

5:6. And the king and all the men that were with him went to Jerusalem
to the Jebusites the inhabitants of the land: and they said to David:
Thou shalt not come in hither unless thou take away the blind and the
lame that say: David shall not come in hither.

5:7. But David took the castle of Sion, the same is the city of David.

5:8. For David had offered that day a reward to whosoever should strike
the Jebusites and get up to the gutters of the tops