SEV Biblia, Chapter 4:11
¿Cuánto más a los malos hombres que mataron a un hombre justo en su casa, y sobre su cama? Ahora pues, ¿no tengo yo de demandar su sangre de vuestras manos, y quitaros de la tierra?
Clarke's Bible Commentary - 2 Samuel 4:11
Verse 11. How much more] Here are several things which aggravated the guilt of those wicked men. 1. Ish-bosheth was an innocent man, and therefore none could have any ground of quarrel against him. 2. He was in his own house, which was his sanctuary, and none but the worst of men would disturb him there. 3. He was upon his bed, resting in the heat of the day, and so free from suspicion that he was not even attended by his guards, nor had he his doors secured. To take away the life of such a man, in such circumstances, whom also they professed to hold as their sovereign, was the most abandoned treachery.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 11. How much more, when wicked men have slain a righteous person , etc.] As Ishbosheth was in comparison of the wicked men that slew him; though not with respect to David, if he knew of his divine designation to the throne; nor with respect to Mephibosheth his eldest brother’s son, whose right to the throne was prior to his, which he must know; though with respect to his conduct towards David, in assuming the throne of Israel, it might not be owing to any bad principles of malice and injustice, but to his ignorance of David’s having a right to the throne upon his father’s death, and by the advice of his friends he took it: the sin of these men in murdering him is aggravated, in that they slew him in his own palace, upon his bed ? in cold blood, and not in the field of battle, not being engaged in war with him; in his own palace, where he might justly think himself in safety; on his bed asleep, and so at an unawares, when insensible of danger, and not in a posture of defence; and now David argues from the lesser to the greater, that if the man that brought him the tidings of Saul’s death had no reward given him for bringing what he thought would be reckoned good tidings, then much less would any be given them who had actually slain their master, and that in such a base and barbarous way; and if the above person, who only was a bringer of tidings, was taken and slain, then how much more did they deserve to die, who had been guilty of such a cruel and barbarous murder? shall I not therefore now require his blood of your hands, and take you away from the earth ? avenge his blood on them, by putting them to death, out of the world, and from the land of the living, as men that deserved to live no longer on it.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 8-12 - A person may be glad to obtain his just wishes, and yet really regre the means by which he receives them. He may be sorry for the death of person by which he is a gainer. These men shed innocent blood, from the basest motives. David justly executed vengeance upon them. He would no be beholden to any to help him by unlawful practices. God had helpe him over many a difficulty, and through many a danger, therefore he depended upon him to crown and complete his own work. He speaks of his redemption from all adversity, as a thing done; though he had man storms yet before him, he knew that He who had delivered, woul deliver __________________________________________________________________
Original Hebrew
אף 637 כי 3588 אנשׁים 376 רשׁעים 7563 הרגו 2026 את 853 אישׁ 376 צדיק 6662 בביתו 1004 על 5921 משׁכבו 4904 ועתה 6258 הלוא 3808 אבקשׁ 1245 את 853 דמו 1818 מידכם 3027 ובערתי 1197 אתכם 853 מן 4480 הארץ׃ 776
