2 Samuel 4:8

Ish-Bosheth Is Assassinated

⁷ They had entered the house while Ish-bosheth was lying on his bed in his bedroom and stabbed and killed him. Then they beheaded him, took his head, and traveled by way of the Arabah all night. ⁸ They brought Ish-bosheth’s head to David at Hebron and said to the king, “Here’s the head of Ish-bosheth son of Saul, your enemy who intended to take your life. Today the Lord has granted vengeance to my lord the king against Saul and his offspring.” ⁹ But 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,

My Lord the King

Your Enemy

David

Hebron

Ishbosheth

Jehovah

Saul

1 Samuel 25:29

“When someone pursues you and attempts to take your life, my lord’s life will be tucked safely in the place where the Lord your God protects the living. However, He will fling away your enemies’ lives like stones from a sling.

1 Samuel 23:15

David was in the Wilderness of Ziph in Horesh when he saw that Saul had come out to take his life.

1 Samuel 18:11

and he threw it, thinking, “I’ll pin David to the wall.” But David got away from him twice.

1 Samuel 19:2-11

so he told him: “My father Saul intends to kill you. Be on your guard in the morning and hide in a secret place and stay there.

1 Samuel 19:15

Saul sent the agents back to see David and said, “Bring him on his bed so I can kill him.”

1 Samuel 20:1

David fled from Naioth in Ramah and came to Jonathan and asked, “What have I done? What did I do wrong? How have I sinned against your father so that he wants to take my life?”

1 Samuel 24:4

so they said to him, “Look, this is the day the Lord told you about: ‘I will hand your enemy over to you so you can do to him whatever you desire.’” Then David got up and secretly cut off the corner of Saul’s robe.

2 Samuel 18:19

Ahimaaz son of Zadok said, “Please let me run and tell the king the good news that the Lord has delivered him from his enemies.”

2 Samuel 18:31

Just then the Cushite came and said, “May my lord the king hear the good news: today the Lord has delivered you from all those rising up against you!”

2 Samuel 22:48

God—He gives me vengeance
and casts down peoples under me.

Psalm 63:9-10

But those who seek to destroy my life
will go into the depths of the earth.

Psalm 71:24

Therefore, my tongue will proclaim
Your righteousness all day long,
for those who seek my harm
will be disgraced and confounded.

Matthew 2:20

saying, “Get up! Take the child and His mother and go to the land of Israel, because those who sought the child’s life are dead.”

Luke 18:7-8

Will not God grant justice to His elect who cry out to Him day and night? Will He delay to help them?

Revelation 6:10

They cried out with a loud voice: “Lord, the One who is holy and true, how long until You judge and avenge our blood from those who live on the earth?”

Revelation 18:20

Rejoice over her, heaven,
and you saints, apostles, and prophets,
because God has executed your judgment on her!