2 Samuel 4:7
7 They had entered ▼ the house while Ish Bosheth ▼▼tn Heb “he”; the referent (Ish Bosheth) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
was resting on his bed in his bedroom. They mortally wounded him ▼▼tn Heb “they struck him down and killed him.” The expression is a verbal hendiadys.
and then cut off his head. ▼▼tn Heb “and they removed his head.” The Syriac Peshitta and Vulgate lack these words.
Taking his head, ▼▼tc The Lucianic Greek recension lacks the words “his head.”
they traveled on the way of the rift valley ▼▼sn The rift valley is a large geographic feature extending form Galilee to the gulf of Aqaba. The portion in view here runs along the west of the Dead Sea.
all that night.
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