2 Samuel 4:6

KJV1611 – Modern English

And they came there into the midst of the house, as though they were fetching wheat; and they struck him under the fifth rib: and Rechab and Baanah his brother escaped.

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  • 2 Sam 2:23 : 23 But he refused to turn aside: therefore Abner struck him with the back end of the spear under the fifth rib, so the spear came out behind him; and he fell there and died on the spot: and as many as came to the place where Asahel fell and died stood still.
  • 2 Sam 3:27 : 27 And when Abner returned to Hebron, Joab took him aside at the gate to speak with him quietly, and struck him there under the fifth rib, so that he died, for the blood of Asahel his brother.
  • 2 Sam 20:10 : 10 But Amasa did not notice the sword in Joab’s hand, so Joab struck him in the stomach, spilling his intestines to the ground. He did not strike him again, and Amasa died. Joab and his brother Abishai then pursued Sheba the son of Bichri.

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  • 2 Sam 4:7-12
    6 verses
    89%

    7For when they came into the house, he was lying on his bed in his bedchamber, and they struck him, and killed him, and beheaded him, and took his head, and went away through the plain all night.

    8And they brought the head of Ishbosheth to David at Hebron, and said to the king, Behold the head of Ishbosheth the son of Saul your enemy, who sought your life; and the LORD has avenged my lord the king this day of Saul, and of his descendants.

    9And David answered Rechab and Baanah his brother, the sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, and said to them, As the LORD lives, who has redeemed my soul out of all adversity,

    10When someone told me, saying, Behold, Saul is dead, thinking he was bringing good news, I took hold of him, and killed him in Ziklag, who thought that I would have given him a reward for his news.

    11How much more, when wicked men have slain a righteous person in his own house on his bed? Shall I not therefore now require his blood from your hand, and remove you from the earth?

    12And David commanded his young men, and they killed them, and cut off their hands and their feet, and hung them up over the pool in Hebron. But they took the head of Ishbosheth, and buried it in the tomb of Abner in Hebron.

  • 2 Sam 4:1-5
    5 verses
    88%

    1And when Saul's son heard that Abner was dead in Hebron, his hands were weak, and all the Israelites were troubled.

    2And Saul's son had two men who were captains of bands: the name of one was Baanah, and the name of the other Rechab, the sons of Rimmon a Beerothite, of the children of Benjamin (for Beeroth also was reckoned to Benjamin).

    3And the Beerothites fled to Gittaim, and have lived there as strangers until this day.

    4And Jonathan, Saul's son, had a son who was lame in his feet. He was five years old when the news came of Saul and Jonathan out of Jezreel, and his nurse took him up, and fled; and as she hurried to flee, he fell, and became lame. His name was Mephibosheth.

    5And the sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, Rechab and Baanah, went, and came during the heat of the day to the house of Ishbosheth, who was lying on a bed at noon.

  • 2 Sam 3:26-27
    2 verses
    75%

    26And when Joab had gone out from David, he sent messengers after Abner, who brought him back from the well of Sirah; but David did not know it.

    27And when Abner returned to Hebron, Joab took him aside at the gate to speak with him quietly, and struck him there under the fifth rib, so that he died, for the blood of Asahel his brother.

  • 2 Sam 20:10
    72%

    10But Amasa did not notice the sword in Joab’s hand, so Joab struck him in the stomach, spilling his intestines to the ground. He did not strike him again, and Amasa died. Joab and his brother Abishai then pursued Sheba the son of Bichri.

  • 2 Sam 2:23-24
    2 verses
    71%

    23But he refused to turn aside: therefore Abner struck him with the back end of the spear under the fifth rib, so the spear came out behind him; and he fell there and died on the spot: and as many as came to the place where Asahel fell and died stood still.

    24Joab also and Abishai pursued Abner: and the sun went down when they came to the hill of Ammah, that is before Giah by the way of the wilderness of Gibeon.

  • 2 Sam 3:30
    70%

    30So Joab and Abishai his brother killed Abner because he had killed their brother Asahel at Gibeon in the battle.

  • 2 Sam 2:15-16
    2 verses
    69%

    15Then there arose and went over by number twelve of Benjamin, belonging to Ishbosheth the son of Saul, and twelve of the servants of David.

    16And they grabbed every one his opponent by the head, and thrust his sword into his opponent's side; so they fell together: wherefore that place was called Helkathhazzurim, which is in Gibeon.

  • 2 Sam 1:15
    68%

    15And David called one of the young men and said, Go near, and strike him. And he smote him that he died.

  • 2 Sam 2:8
    68%

    8But Abner the son of Ner, captain of Saul's army, took Ishbosheth the son of Saul, and brought him over to Mahanaim;

  • 1 Kgs 2:34
    68%

    34So Benaiah the son of Jehoiada went up and struck and killed him, and he was buried in his own house in the wilderness.

  • 2 Sam 2:31-32
    2 verses
    68%

    31But the servants of David had struck Benjamin, and Abner's men, so that three hundred and sixty men died.

    32And they took up Asahel, and buried him in the tomb of his father, which was in Bethlehem. And Joab and his men traveled all night, and they came to Hebron at dawn.

  • 2 Sam 2:12
    68%

    12And Abner the son of Ner, and the servants of Ishbosheth the son of Saul, went out from Mahanaim to Gibeon.

  • 2 Sam 1:10
    68%

    10So I stood upon him and killed him, because I was sure that he could not live after he had fallen: and I took the crown that was upon his head, and the bracelet that was on his arm, and have brought them here to my lord.

  • 1 Kgs 2:31-32
    2 verses
    68%

    31And the king said unto him, Do as he has said, and strike him down and bury him, that you may take away the innocent blood which Joab shed, from me and from the house of my father.

    32And the Lord will return his blood upon his own head, who struck down two men more righteous and better than he, and killed them with the sword, my father David not knowing of it: namely, Abner the son of Ner, captain of the army of Israel, and Amasa the son of Jether, captain of the army of Judah.

  • 2 Sam 18:15
    68%

    15And ten young men who carried Joab's armor surrounded and struck Absalom, and killed him.

  • 1 Sam 26:7-8
    2 verses
    67%

    7So David and Abishai came to the people by night, and there lay Saul sleeping within the camp, with his spear stuck in the ground at his head; but Abner and the people lay around him.

    8Then Abishai said to David, "God has delivered your enemy into your hand this day. Now, therefore, let me strike him with the spear to the ground with one stroke, and I will not strike him a second time."

  • 2 Sam 21:12
    67%

    12And David went and took the bones of Saul and the bones of Jonathan his son from the men of Jabeshgilead, who had stolen them from the street of Bethshan, where the Philistines had hanged them, when the Philistines killed Saul in Gilboa:

  • Jer 41:7
    67%

    7And it was so, when they came into the midst of the city, that Ishmael the son of Nethaniah killed them, and cast them into the midst of the pit, he, and the men who were with him.

  • 1 Sam 24:4
    66%

    4And the men of David said to him, Behold, the day of which the LORD said to you, Behold, I will deliver your enemy into your hand, that you may do to him as it seems good to you. Then David arose and cut off the edge of Saul's robe secretly.

  • 1 Sam 24:11
    66%

    11Moreover, my father, see, yes, see the edge of your robe in my hand: for in that I cut off the edge of your robe and killed you not, know and see that there is neither evil nor rebellion in my hand, and I have not sinned against you; yet you hunt my soul to take it.

  • 1 Chr 20:7
    66%

    7When he defied Israel, Jonathan the son of Shimea, David's brother, slew him.

  • 2 Kgs 11:16
    66%

    16They seized her, and she went by the way of the horses' entrance to the king's house, and there she was slain.

  • 1 Kgs 2:5
    66%

    5Moreover, you know also what Joab the son of Zeruiah did to me, and what he did to the two captains of the hosts of Israel, to Abner the son of Ner, and to Amasa the son of Jether, whom he killed, and shed the blood of war in peace, and put the blood of war on his belt that was about his loins, and in his shoes on his feet.

  • 2 Sam 20:13-14
    2 verses
    66%

    13Once he was removed from the road, all the people continued after Joab, pursuing Sheba the son of Bichri.

    14Sheba passed through all the tribes of Israel to Abel and to Bethmaachah, and all the Berites gathered together and followed him.

  • 1 Sam 19:15
    66%

    15And Saul sent the messengers again to see David, saying, Bring him up to me in the bed, that I may kill him.

  • 2 Sam 14:6-7
    2 verses
    66%

    6And your maidservant had two sons, and the two fought together in the field, and there was none to separate them, but one struck the other, and killed him.

    7And, behold, the whole family has risen against your maidservant, and they said, Deliver him who struck his brother, that we may kill him, for the life of his brother whom he slew; and we will destroy the heir also: and so they shall extinguish my last remaining ember, and shall not leave to my husband either name or remnant on the earth.

  • 2 Sam 21:21-22
    2 verses
    66%

    21And when he defied Israel, Jonathan the son of Shimea, David's brother, killed him.

    22These four were born to the giant in Gath and fell by the hand of David and by the hand of his servants.

  • 2 Sam 21:8
    66%

    8But the king took the two sons of Rizpah, the daughter of Aiah, whom she bore to Saul, Armoni and Mephibosheth; and the five sons of Michal, the daughter of Saul, whom she brought up for Adriel, the son of Barzillai the Meholathite:

  • 2 Sam 20:21
    66%

    21The matter is not so; but a man from the hill country of Ephraim, Sheba the son of Bichri by name, has raised his hand against the king, against David. Deliver him only, and I will depart from the city. The woman said to Joab, Behold, his head shall be thrown to you over the wall.

  • 1 Sam 22:17
    66%

    17And the king said to the footmen that stood about him, Turn, and slay the priests of the LORD; because their hand also is with David, and because they knew when he fled, and did not show it to me. But the servants of the king would not put forth their hand to attack the priests of the LORD.

  • 2 Chr 23:15
    66%

    15So they laid hands on her; and when she came to the entrance of the Horse Gate by the king's house, they slew her there.

  • 2 Sam 2:4
    65%

    4And the men of Judah came, and there they anointed David king over the house of Judah. And they told David, saying, It was the men of Jabeshgilead who buried Saul.