KJV King James Version
When one told me, saying, Behold, Saul is dead, thinking to have brought good tidings, I took hold of him, and slew him in Ziklag, who [thought] that I would have given him a reward for his tidings:
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2 Samuel 4:10
When one told me, saying, Behold, Saul is dead, thinking to have brought good tidings, I took hold of him, and slew him in Ziklag, who [thought] that I would have given him a reward for his tidings:
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
when someone told me, ‘Look, Saul is dead,’ and thought he was a bearer of good news, I seized him and put him to death at Ziklag. That was his reward for his news!
WEB World English Bible
when someone told me, ‘Behold, Saul is dead,’ thinking to have brought good news, I took hold of him, and killed him in Ziklag, which was the reward I gave him for his news.
ASV American Standard Version
when one told me, saying, Behold, Saul is dead, thinking to have brought good tidings, I took hold of him, and slew him in Ziklag, which was the reward I gave him for his tidings.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
when one is declaring to me, saying, Lo, Saul is dead, and he was as a bearer of tidings in his own eyes, then I take hold on him, and slay him in Ziklag, instead of my giving to him for the tidings.
Surrounding context — 2 Samuel 4
7 For when they came into the house, he lay on his bed in his bedchamber, and they smote him, and slew him, and beheaded him, and took his head, and gat them away through the plain all night.
8 And they brought the head of Ishbosheth unto David to Hebron, and said to the king, Behold the head of Ishbosheth the son of Saul thine enemy, which sought thy life; and the LORD hath avenged my lord the king this day of Saul, and of his seed.
9 And David answered Rechab and Baanah his brother, the sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, and said unto them, [As] the LORD liveth, who hath redeemed my soul out of all adversity,
10 When one told me, saying, Behold, Saul is dead, thinking to have brought good tidings, I took hold of him, and slew him in Ziklag, who [thought] that I would have given him a reward for his tidings:
11 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?
12 And 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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כִּ֣יH3588 · kiforהַמַּגִּיד֩H5046 · na.gadto tellלִ֨יH9030 · nimeלֵאמֹ֜רH559 · a.marto sayהִנֵּה־H2009 · hin.nehbeholdמֵ֣תH4191 · mutto dieשָׁא֗וּלH7586 · sha.ulSaulוְהֽוּא־H1931 · huhe/she/itהָיָ֤הH1961 · ha.yahto beכִמְבַשֵּׂר֙H1319 · ba.sarto bear tidingsבְּעֵינָ֔יוH5869 · a.yineyeוָאֹחֲזָ֣הH270 · a.chazto graspב֔וֹH9033 · ohimוָאֶהְרְגֵ֖הוּH2026 · ha.ragto killבְּצִֽקְלָ֑גH6860 · tsiq.lagZiklagאֲשֶׁ֥רH834 · a.sherwhichלְתִתִּי־H5414 · na.tanto give: giveל֖וֹH9033 · ohimבְּשֹׂרָֽה׃H1309 · be.s.vo.rahgood news
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