(The view expressed in this blog are my own and should not be taken as inspired in any way.)
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2 Samuel 4:9–12, “And David answered Rechab and Baanah his brother, the sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, and said unto them, As the LORD liveth, who hath redeemed my soul out of all adversity, 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: How much more, when wicked men have slain a righteous person in his own house upon his bed? shall I not therefore now require his blood of your hand, and take you away from the earth? And David commanded his young men, and they slew them, and cut off their hands and their feet, and hanged them up over the pool in Hebron. But they took the head of Ishbosheth, and buried it in the sepulchre of Abner in Hebron.”
David had always been willing to trust the Lord and to wait for His timing. He had opportunities to kill Saul but didn’t take them because Saul was the Lord’s anointed. David didn’t rejoice at the Saul’s death or reward the man who claimed to have killed him.David was horrified that these brothers would be so callous as to kill and innocent man while he slept. David condemned these brothers to dead because, essentially, the had plead guilty to a maliciously planned murder. He treated Ishbosheth’s body with respect and gave him an honourable burial. Ishbosheth was buried in Abner’s family mausoleum to show that he was a man who should have been treated with respect and honour.
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