2 Samuel 4:10-11
4:10 when someone told me that Saul was dead – even though he thought he was bringing good news 1 – I seized him and killed him in Ziklag. That was the good news I gave to him!
4:11 Surely when wicked men have killed an innocent man as he slept 2 in his own house, should I not now require his blood from your hands and remove 3 you from the earth?”
1 tn Heb “and he was like a bearer of good news in his eyes.”
2 tn Heb “on his bed.”
3 tn See HALOT 146 s.v. II בער. Some derive the verb from a homonym meaning “to burn; to consume.”