David Rejects The Murderers' Expectation Of Reward

8They brought the head of Ish-bosheth to David at Hebron, and said to the king, “Here is the head of Ish-bosheth son of Saul, your enemy, who sought your life. Yahweh has given my lord the king vengeance today on Saul and on his offspring.”

9But David answered Rekab and Baanah his brother, the sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, and said to them, “As Yahweh lives, who has redeemed my life out of every distress,

10When someone told me, saying, ‘Look, Saul is dead,’ and he thought he was bringing good news in his own eyes, I seized him and killed him in Ziklag—that was the reward I gave him for his news.

11How much more, when wicked men have killed a righteous man in his own house on his bed, should I not now require his blood from your hand and purge you from the land?

12Then David commanded the young men, and they killed them and cut off their hands and their feet and hung them by the pool at Hebron. But they took the head of Ish-bosheth and buried it in the tomb of Abner at Hebron.