SEV Biblia, Chapter 4:12
Entonces David mandó a los jóvenes, y ellos los mataron, y les cortaron las manos y los pies, y los colgaron sobre el estanque, en Hebrón. Luego tomaron la cabeza de Is-boset, y la enterraron en el sepulcro de Abner en Hebrón.
Clarke's Bible Commentary - 2 Samuel 4:12
Verse 12. And they slew them] None ever more richly deserved death; and by this act of justice, David showed to all Israel that he was a decided enemy to the destruction of Saul's family; and that none could lift up their hands against any of them without meeting with condign punishment. In all these cases I know not that it was possible for David to show more sincerity, or a stricter regard for justice.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 12. And David commanded his young men, and they slew them , etc.] He ordered some of his guards about him to fall on them, and put them to death; and they accordingly did: and cut off their hands and their feet ; their hands, which had smote Ishbosheth, and cut off his head; and their feet, which had been swift to shed his blood, and made haste to bring his head so many miles to David; this was what the Jews call measure for measure: and hanged [them] up over the pool in Hebron ; not their hands and their feet, but the trunks of their bodies, thus mutilated; so Theodoret; though others think their hands and their feet were hung up, and not their bodies, because dead bodies were not to hang upon the tree more than a day; they were hung up over the fish pool in Hebron, because a public place, and where they were the more exposed to their shame, and the terror of others: but they took the head of Ishbosheth, and buried [it] in the sepulchre of Abner in Hebron ; by order of David no doubt, who it seems had made, or ordered to be made, a sepulchre, for Abner, (see 2 Samuel 3:38); all which David did to show his regard to the family of Saul, his abhorrence of such execrable murders, and to remove all suspicion of his being concerned in them, and to conciliate the minds of the Israelites to him.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 8-12 - A person may be glad to obtain his just wishes, and yet really regre the means by which he receives them. He may be sorry for the death of person by which he is a gainer. These men shed innocent blood, from the basest motives. David justly executed vengeance upon them. He would no be beholden to any to help him by unlawful practices. God had helpe him over many a difficulty, and through many a danger, therefore he depended upon him to crown and complete his own work. He speaks of his redemption from all adversity, as a thing done; though he had man storms yet before him, he knew that He who had delivered, woul deliver __________________________________________________________________
Original Hebrew
ויצו 6680 דוד 1732 את 853 הנערים 5288 ויהרגום 2026 ויקצצו 7112 את 853 ידיהם 3027 ואת 853 רגליהם 7272 ויתלו 8518 על 5921 הברכה 1295 בחברון 2275 ואת 853 ראשׁ 7218 אישׁ בשׁת 378 לקחו 3947 ויקברו 6912 בקבר 6913 אבנר 74 בחברון׃ 2275
