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2 Samuel 4:10

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4:10when someone told me that Saul was dead—even though he thought he was bringing good news14—I seized him and killed him in Ziklag. That was the good news I gave to him!

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  1. 14 Heb “and he was like a bearer of good news in his eyes.”

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

when one told me, ‘Behold, Saul is dead,’ and thought he was bringing good news, I seized him and killed him at Ziklag, which was the reward I gave him for his news.

NIVNew International Version (2011)

when someone told me, ‘Saul is dead,’ and thought he was bringing good news, I seized him and put him to death in Ziklag. That was the reward I gave him for his news!

CSBChristian Standard Bible

when the person told me, ‘Look, Saul is dead,’ he thought he was a bearer of good news, but I seized him and put him to death at Ziklag. That was my reward to him for his news!

NLTNew Living Translation

Someone once told me, ‘Saul is dead,’ thinking he was bringing me good news. But I seized him and killed him at Ziklag. That’s the reward I gave him for his news!

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

when the one who told me, “Look, Saul is dead,” thought that he was bringing good news, I seized him and killed him at Ziklag, which was as my giving the news back to him.

KJV 1900King James Version

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: