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2 Samuel 4:11

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Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Assassination;   Government;   Homicide;   Ish-Bosheth;   Rechab;   Zeal, Religious;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Kings;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Baanah and Rechab;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - David;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Kill, Killing;   Murder;   Requirement;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Bloodguilt;   Court Systems;   Crimes and Punishments;   Rechab;   Samuel, Books of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Baanah;   Rechab, Rechabites;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Baanah ;   Ishbosheth ;   Rechab ;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Hebrew Monarchy, the;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Crime;   Rechab;   Samuel, Books of;  

Parallel Translations

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Contextual Overview

9 And Dauid aunswered Rechab and Baanah his brother ye sonnes of Rimmon the Berothite, and said vnto them: As the Lorde lyueth, whiche hath deliuered my soule out of all aduersites: 10 When one tolde me & sayde that Saul was dead (thynking to haue brought good tydinges) I caught him, and slue him in Ziklag: whiche thought that I woulde haue geuen him a rewarde for his tydinges bringing: 11 Howe much more when wicked men haue slayne a righteous person in his owne house and vpon his bed? Shal I not nowe therfore require his blood of your hande, & take you from the earth? 12 And Dauid commaunded his young men, and they slue them, and cut of their handes and feete, and hanged them vp ouer the poole in Hebron: But they toke the head of Isboseth, & buried it in the sepulchre of Abner in Hebron.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

when wicked: 1 Kings 2:32, Proverbs 25:26, Habakkuk 1:4, Habakkuk 1:12, 1 John 3:12

require: 2 Samuel 3:27, 2 Samuel 3:39, Genesis 9:5, Genesis 9:6, Exodus 21:12, Numbers 35:31-34, Psalms 9:12

from: Genesis 4:11, Genesis 6:13, Genesis 7:23, Exodus 9:15, Psalms 109:15, Proverbs 2:22, Jeremiah 10:11

Reciprocal: Genesis 20:4 - wilt Joshua 2:19 - his blood Job 31:29 - General Lamentations 1:6 - all Ezekiel 3:18 - but Ezekiel 33:6 - his blood Habakkuk 1:13 - the wicked 1 Timothy 6:10 - the love Hebrews 9:14 - How

Cross-References

Genesis 3:14
And the lord god said vnto ye serpent: Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed aboue all cattel, and aboue euery beast of the fielde: vpon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eate all the dayes of thy lyfe.
Genesis 4:14
Beholde, thou hast cast me out this day from the vpper face of the earth, & from thy face shall I be hyd, fugitiue also and a vacabounde shall I be in the earth: and it shall come to passe, that euery one that fyndeth me shal slay me.
Genesis 4:15
And the Lorde said vnto him: Uerely whosoeuer slayeth Cain, he shalbe punished seuen folde. And the Lorde set a marke vpon Cain, lest any man fyndyng hym shoulde kyll hym.
Genesis 4:16
And Cain went out from the presence of the Lorde, & dwelt in the lande of Nod, eastwarde from Eden.
Genesis 4:19
And Lamech toke vnto hym two wyues, the name of the one was Ada, and the name of the other was Sella.
Genesis 4:20
And Ada bare Iabel, which was the father of such as dwel in the tentes, and of such as haue cattell.
Genesis 4:21
His brothers name was Iubal, which was the father of such as handle Harpe and Organ.
Genesis 4:26
And vnto the same Seth also there was borne a sonne, and he called his name Enos: then began men to make inuocation in the name of the Lorde.
Job 16:18
O earth couer not thou my blood, and let my crying finde no roome.
Isaiah 26:21
For beholde, the Lorde is comming out of his place, to visite the wickednesse of suche as dwell vpon earth: the earth also shall disclose her bloods, and shall no more hide them that are slayne in her.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

How much more, when wicked men have slain a righteous person,.... As Ishbosheth was in comparison of the wicked men that slew him; though not with respect to David, if he knew of his divine designation to the throne; nor with respect to Mephibosheth his eldest brother's son, whose right to the throne was prior to his, which he must know; though with respect to his conduct towards David, in assuming the throne of Israel, it might not be owing to any bad principles of malice and injustice, but to his ignorance of David's having a right to the throne upon his father's death, and by the advice of his friends he took it: the sin of these men in murdering him is aggravated, in that they slew him

in his own palace, upon his bed? in cold blood, and not in the field of battle, not being engaged in war with him; in his own palace, where he might justly think himself in safety; on his bed asleep, and so at an unawares, when insensible of danger, and not in a posture of defence; and now David argues from the lesser to the greater, that if the man that brought him the tidings of Saul's death had no reward given him for bringing what he thought would be reckoned good tidings, then much less would any be given them who had actually slain their master, and that in such a base and barbarous way; and if the above person, who only was a bringer of tidings, was taken and slain, then how much more did they deserve to die, who had been guilty of such a cruel and barbarous murder?

shall I not therefore now require his blood of your hands, and take you away from the earth? avenge his blood on them, by putting them to death, out of the world, and from the land of the living, as men that deserved to live no longer on it.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 2 Samuel 4:11. How much more — Here are several things which aggravated the guilt of those wicked men.

1. Ish-bosheth was an innocent man, and therefore none could have any ground of quarrel against him.

2. He was in his own house, which was his sanctuary, and none but the worst of men would disturb him there.

3. He was upon his bed, resting in the heat of the day, and so free from suspicion that he was not even attended by his guards, nor had he his doors secured. To take away the life of such a man, in such circumstances, whom also they professed to hold as their sovereign, was the most abandoned treachery.


 
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