2 Samuel 4:7

7 Entraron en la casa y encontraron a Is-boset dormido en su cama. Lo golpearon, lo mataron y le cortaron la cabeza. Luego tomaron la cabeza y huyeron durante la noche a través del valle del Jordán.

2 Samuel 4:7 Meaning and Commentary

2 Samuel 4:7

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 ^F26.

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FOOTNOTES:

F26 Travels, p. 145, 148.

2 Samuel 4:7 In-Context

5 Cierto día, Recab y Baana, los hijos de Rimón de Beerot, fueron a la casa de Is-boset cerca del mediodía mientras él dormía la siesta.

6 A la portera, quien había estado zarandeando trigo, le dio sueño y se durmió. Así que Recab y Baana pasaron desapercibidos.

7 Entraron en la casa y encontraron a Is-boset dormido en su cama. Lo golpearon, lo mataron y le cortaron la cabeza. Luego tomaron la cabeza y huyeron durante la noche a través del valle del Jordán.

8 Cuando llegaron a Hebrón le presentaron la cabeza de Is-boset a David y exclamaron:
—¡Mire! Aquí está la cabeza de Is-boset, el hijo de su enemigo Saúl, quien intentó matarlo. ¡El Señor
le ha dado hoy a mi señor el rey venganza sobre Saúl y toda su familia!

9 Pero David les dijo a Recab y a Baana:
—El Señor
, quien me salvó de mis enemigos, es mi testigo.