⁷ And when they came into the house, Ish-bosheth was stretched on his bed in his bedroom; and they made an attack on him and put him to death, and, cutting off his head, they took it with them and went by the road through the Arabah all night.

⁵⁴ And David took the head of the Philistine to Jerusalem, but the metal war-dress and the arms he put in his tent.

⁹ And cutting off his head and taking away his war-dress, they sent word into the land of the Philistines round about, to take the news to their gods and to the people.

²⁹ And all that night Abner and his men went through the Arabah; they went over Jordan and through all Bithron and came to Mahanaim.

⁶ Then he sent them a second letter, saying, If you are on my side, and if you will do my orders, come to me at Jezreel by this time tomorrow, with the heads of your master's sons. Now the king's seventy sons were with the great men of the town, who had the care of them.

⁷ And when the letter came to them, they took the king's sons and put them to death, all the seventy, and put their heads in baskets and sent them to him at Jezreel.

¹¹ And his head was put on a plate and given to the girl; and she took it to her mother.

²⁸ And came back with the head on a plate, and gave it to the girl; and the girl gave it to her mother.

²⁹ And when his disciples had news of it, they came and took up his body, and put it in its last resting-place.