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Monday, July 28th, 2025
the Week of Proper 12 / Ordinary 17
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Hebrew Modern Translation

שמואל ב 4:7

ויבאו הבית והוא שכב על מטתו בחדר משכבו ויכהו וימתהו ויסירו את ראשו ויקחו את ראשו וילכו דרך הערבה כל הלילה׃

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Assassination;   Homicide;   Ish-Bosheth;   Rechab;   Regicide;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Murder;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Baanah and Rechab;   Bed;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Arabah;   Ish-Bosheth;   Mahanaim;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Bannah;   Beeroth;   Rimmon;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Court Systems;   Head;   Ish-Bosheth;   Rechab;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Baanah;   House;   Rechab, Rechabites;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Baanah ;   Beeroth ;   Beheading;   Ishbosheth ;   Rechab ;   Rimmon ;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Dwelling;   Ish-bosheth;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Mill;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Hebrew Monarchy, the;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Arabah;   Champaign;   Crime;   Rechab;   Samuel, Books of;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Arabah;   Couch;  

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Aleppo Codex
ויבאו הבית והוא שכב על מטתו בחדר משכבו ויכהו וימתהו ויסירו את ראשו ויקחו את ראשו וילכו דרך הערבה כל הלילה
Biblia Hebrica Stuttgartensia (1967/77)
וַיָּבֹ֣אוּ הַבַּ֗יִת וְהֽוּא־שֹׁכֵ֤ב עַל־מִטָּתוֹ֙ בַּחֲדַ֣ר מִשְׁכָּבֹ֔ו וַיַּכֻּ֙הוּ֙ וַיְמִתֻ֔הוּ וַיָּסִ֖ירוּ אֶת־רֹאשֹׁ֑ו וַיִּקְחוּ֙ אֶת־רֹאשֹׁ֔ו וַיֵּֽלְכ֛וּ דֶּ֥רֶךְ הָעֲרָבָ֖ה כָּל־הַלָּֽיְלָה ׃
Westminster Leningrad Codex
וַיָּבֹאוּ הַבַּיִת וְהֽוּא־שֹׁכֵב עַל־מִטָּתוֹ בַּחֲדַר מִשְׁכָּבוֹ וַיַּכֻּהוּ וַיְמִתֻהוּ וַיָּסִירוּ אֶת־רֹאשׁוֹ וַיִּקְחוּ אֶת־רֹאשׁוֹ וַיֵּֽלְכוּ דֶּרֶךְ הָעֲרָבָה כָּל־הַלָּֽיְלָה ׃

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

took his head: 1 Samuel 17:54, 1 Samuel 31:9, 2 Kings 10:6, 2 Kings 10:7, Matthew 14:11, Mark 6:28, Mark 6:29, When those difficulties dispirit us which should rather invigorate us and sharpen our endeavours, we betray a carelessness of character which is soon taken advantage of by our more watchful neighbours. Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty and ruin. The idle soul is an easy prey to the destroyer.

Reciprocal: 1 Samuel 20:16 - Let the Lord 2 Samuel 11:2 - arose from

Gill's Notes on the Bible

For when they came into the house, he lay on his bed in his bedchamber,.... This is repeated to give a more particular account of the murder; though Abarbinel thinks they went in twice; when they went in first they smote him under the fifth rib, and made their escape; but fearing they had not left him dead, they returned, and did as follows:

and they smote him, and slew him; so that it was out of all doubt with them that he was dead:

and beheaded him; to make sure work of it:

and took his head; along with them, perhaps in one of the sacks they had to fetch wheat in, and so passed undiscovered, to carry to David, to curry favour with him:

and gat them away through the plain all night; through the plain of Jordan; all the way from Mahanaim to Hebron being for the most part a plain country till they came to Hebron, which was mountainous; the way from Mahanaim to Hebron was a space of sixty eight miles, according to Bunting z.

z Travels, p. 145, 148.


 
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