“For when they came into the house, he lay on his bed in his bedchamber, and they smote him, and slew him, and beheaded him, and took his head, and gat them away through the plain all night.”
They struck him down, and killed him, and beheaded him — Ish-bosheth is struck, killed, and beheaded. The decapitation is final desecration of royal dignity. The murderers take the head as proof of their deed, thinking to gain favor with David.
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