THEOSIS2 Kingdoms (2 Samuel) 4:7Meaning & Commentary from the Church Fathers
For when they came into the house, he was sleeping upon his bed in a parlour, and they struck him and killed him and taking away his head they went off by the way of the wilderness, walking all night.
וַיָּבֹ֣אוּ הַבַּ֗יִת וְהֽוּא־שֹׁכֵ֤ב עַל־מִטָּתוֹ֙ בַּחֲדַ֣ר מִשְׁכָּב֔וֹ וַיַּכֻּ֙הוּ֙ וַיְמִתֻ֔הוּ וַיָּסִ֖ירוּ אֶת־רֹאשׁ֑וֹ וַיִּקְחוּ֙ אֶת־רֹאשׁ֔וֹ וַיֵּֽלְכ֛וּ דֶּ֥רֶךְ הָעֲרָבָ֖ה כָּל־הַלָּֽיְלָה׃
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Passages read together with this verse.
- Matt 14:11And his head was brought in a dish: and it was given to the damsel, and she brought it to her mother.
- 1 Sam 17:54And David taking the head of the Philistine, brought it to Jerusalem: but his armour he put in his tent.
- Mark 6:28And he beheaded him in the prison, and brought his head in a dish: and gave to the damsel, and the damsel gave it her mother.
- Mark 6:29Which his disciples hearing came, and took his body, and laid it in a tomb.
- 2 Sam 2:29And Abner and his men walked all that night through the plains: and they passed the Jordan, and having gone through all Beth-horon, came to the camp.
- 1 Sam 31:9And they cut off Saul's head, and stripped him of his armour, and sent into the land of the Philistines round about, to publish it in the temples of their idols and among their people.