3:28 When David later heard about this, he said, “I and my kingdom are forever innocent before the Lord of the shed blood of Abner son of Ner! 3:29 May his blood whirl over 1 the head of Joab and the entire house of his father! 2 May the males of Joab’s house 3 never cease to have 4 someone with a running sore or a skin disease or one who works at the spindle 5 or one who falls by the sword or one who lacks food!”
4:9 David replied to Recab and his brother Baanah, the sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, “As surely as the Lord lives, who has delivered my life from all adversity, 4:10 when someone told me that Saul was dead – even though he thought he was bringing good news 7 – I seized him and killed him in Ziklag. That was the good news I gave to him! 4:11 Surely when wicked men have killed an innocent man as he slept 8 in his own house, should I not now require his blood from your hands and remove 9 you from the earth?”
4:12 So David issued orders to the soldiers and they put them to death. Then they cut off their hands and feet and hung them 10 near the pool in Hebron. But they took the head of Ish-bosheth 11 and buried it in the tomb of Abner 12 in Hebron. 13
3:2 Many say about me,
“God will not deliver him.” 14 (Selah) 15
4:2 You men, 16 how long will you try to turn my honor into shame? 17
How long 18 will you love what is worthless 19
and search for what is deceptive? 20 (Selah)