Christian Standard Bible
2 Samuel 4:11
11How much more when wicked men kill a righteous man in his own house on his own bed! So now, should I not require his blood from you and purge you from the earth?”
2 Samuel 4:11 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)How much more, when wicked men have slain a righteous person in his own house upon his bed? shall I not therefore now require his blood of your hand, and take you away from the earth?
- New International Version (NIV)How much more—when wicked men have killed an innocent man in his own house and on his own bed—should I not now demand his blood from your hand and rid the earth of you!”
- English Standard Version (ESV)How much more, when wicked men have killed a righteous man in his own house on his bed, shall I not now require his blood at your hand and destroy you from the earth?"
- New King James Version (NKJV)How much more, when wicked men have killed a righteous person in his own house on his bed? Therefore, shall I not now require his blood at your hand and remove you from the earth?”
Context of 2 Samuel 4:11
9But David answered Rechab and his brother Baanah, sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, “As the Lord lives, the one who has redeemed my life from every distress, 10when the person told me, ‘Look, Saul is dead,’ he thought he was a bearer of good news, but I seized him and put him to death at Ziklag. That was my reward to him for his news! How much more when wicked men kill a righteous man in his own house on his own bed! So now, should I not require his blood from you and purge you from the earth?” 12So David gave orders to the young men, and they killed Rechab and Baanah. They cut off their hands and feet and hung their bodies by the pool in Hebron, but they took Ish-bosheth’s head and buried it in Abner’s tomb in Hebron.
Read all of 2 Samuel 42 Samuel 4:11 word by word
אַ֞ף כִּֽי־אֲנָשִׁ֣ים רְשָׁעִ֗ים הָרְג֧וּ אֶת־אִישׁ־צַדִּ֛יק בְּבֵית֖וֹ עַל־מִשְׁכָּב֑וֹ וְעַתָּ֗ה הֲל֨וֹא אֲבַקֵּ֤שׁ אֶת־דָּמוֹ֙ מִיֶּדְכֶ֔ם וּבִעַרְתִּ֥י אֶתְכֶ֖ם מִן־הָאָֽרֶץ׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
- How much more, when wickedרָשָׁעrâshâ‛ · wickedH7563
- menאֱנוֹשׁ'ĕnôsh · humanH582
- have slainהָרַגhârag · to killH2026
- a righteousצַדִּיקtsaddîyq · righteousH6662
- personאִישׁ'îysh · manH376
- in his own houseבַּ֫יִתbayith · house: homeH1004
- upon his bedמִשְׁכָּבmishkâb · bedH4904
- shall I not therefore now requireבָּקַשׁbâqash · to seekH1245
- his bloodדָּםdâm · bloodH1818
- of your handיָדyâd · handH3027
- and take you awayבָּעַרbâ‛ar · to burn: destroyH1197
- from the earthאֶ֫רֶץ'erets · land: country/planetH776
Cross-references for 2 Samuel 4:11
- 1 Kings 2:32The Lord will bring back his own blood on his head because he struck down two men more righteous and better than he, without my father David’s knowledge. With his sword, Joab murdered Abner son of Ner, commander of Israel’s army, and Amasa son of Jether, commander of Judah’s army.
- Proverbs 25:26A righteous person who yields to the wicked is like a muddied spring or a polluted well.
- Habakkuk 1:4This is why the law is ineffective and justice never emerges. For the wicked restrict the righteous; therefore, justice comes out perverted.
- 1 John 3:12unlike Cain, who was of the evil one and murdered his brother. And why did he murder him? Because his deeds were evil, and his brother’s were righteous.
- 2 Samuel 3:27When Abner returned to Hebron, Joab pulled him aside to the middle of the city gate, as if to speak to him privately, and there Joab stabbed him in the stomach. So Abner died in revenge for the death of Asahel, Joab’s brother.
- Genesis 9:5And I will require a penalty for your lifeblood; I will require it from any animal and from any human; if someone murders a fellow human, I will require that person’s life.
- Exodus 21:12“Whoever strikes a person so that he dies must be put to death.
- Numbers 35:31You are not to accept a ransom for the life of someone who is guilty of murder; he must be put to death.
- Psalms 9:12For the one who seeks an accounting for bloodshed remembers them; he does not forget the cry of the oppressed.
- Genesis 4:11So now you are cursed, alienated from the ground that opened its mouth to receive your brother’s blood you have shed.
- Genesis 6:13Then God said to Noah, “I have decided to put an end to every creature, for the earth is filled with wickedness because of them; therefore I am going to destroy them along with the earth.
- Genesis 7:23He wiped out every living thing that was on the face of the earth, from mankind to livestock, to creatures that crawl, to the birds of the sky, and they were wiped off the earth. Only Noah was left, and those that were with him in the ark.
- Exodus 9:15By now I could have stretched out my hand and struck you and your people with a plague, and you would have been obliterated from the earth.
- Psalms 109:15Let their sins always remain before the Lord, and let him remove all memory of them from the earth.
- Proverbs 2:22but the wicked will be cut off from the land, and the treacherous ripped out of it.
- Jeremiah 10:11You are to say this to them: “The gods that did not make the heavens and the earth will perish from the earth and from under these heavens.”
Commentaries on 2 Samuel 4:11
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 11How much more - Here are several things which aggravated the guilt of those wicked men. Ish-bosheth was an innocent man, and therefore none could have any ground of quarrel against him. 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…Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 8-12Verses 8-12 A person may be glad to obtain his just wishes, and yet really regret the means by which he receives them. He may be sorry for the death of a person by which he is a gainer. These men shed innocent blood, from the basest motives. David justly executed vengeance upon them. He would not be beholden to any to help him by unlawful practices. God had helped him over many a difficulty, and through many a danger, therefore he depended upon him to…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 9-11when someone told me: Compare 2 Samuel 1:1–16.Read the comment
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Commentaries on 2 Samuel 4
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
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