King James Version
2 Samuel 4:10 KJV
“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: thinking: Heb. he was in his own eyes as a bringer, etc who: or, which was the reward I gave him for his tidings”
Assassination
2 Samuel 4 — Context
2 Samuel 4:9 — “And David answered Rechab and Baanah his brother, the sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, and said unto them, As the LORD liv...”
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: thinking: Heb. he was in his own eyes as a bringer, etc who: or, which was the reward I gave him for his tidings”
2 Samuel 4:11 — “How much more, when wicked men have slain a righteous person in his own house upon his bed? shall I not therefore now re...”