2 Samuel 4:12
David commanded his young men, and they killed them, cut off their hands and their feet, and hanged them up beside the pool in Hebron. But they took the head of Ishbosheth and buried it in Abner’s grave in Hebron.
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- 2 Samuel 1:15 David called one of the young men and said, “Go near, and cut him down!” He struck him so that he died.
- 2 Samuel 3:32 They buried Abner in Hebron; and the king lifted up his voice and wept at Abner’s grave; and all the people wept.
- Deuteronomy 21:22–23 If a man has committed a sin worthy of death, and he is put to death, and you hang him on a tree, his body shall not remain all night on the tree, but you shall surely bury him the same day; for he who is hanged is accursed of God. Don’t defile your land which Yahweh your God gives you for an inheritance.