12And David commanded his young men, and they slew them, and cut off their hands and their feet, and hanged them up over the pool in Hebron. But they took the head of Ishbosheth, and buried it in the sepulchre of Abner in Hebron.
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And David called one of the young men, and said, Go near, and fall upon him. And he smote him that he died.
And they buried Abner in Hebron: and the king lifted up his voice, and wept at the grave of Abner; and all the people wept.
And he delivered them into the hands of the Gibeonites, and they hanged them in the hill before the LORD: and they fell all seven together, and were put to death in the days of harvest, in the first days, in the beginning of barley harvest.
For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again.
And if a man have committed a sin worthy of death, and he be to be put to death, and thou hang him on a tree: …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 9-12)We have here justice done upon the murderers of Ish-bosheth. I. Sentence passed upon them. There needed no evidence, their own tongues witnessed against them; they were so far from denying the fact that they gloried in it. David therefore shows them the heinousness of the crime, and that blood called for blood from his hand, who was now the chief magistrate, and was by office the avenger of blood.…
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