2 Samuel 4:7

New American Bible - revised edition

and entered the house while Ishbaal was lying asleep in his bedroom. They struck and killed him, and cut off his head. Then, taking the head, they traveled on the Arabah road all night long. The Murder Avenged.

Cross References

2 Samuel 2:29

Abner and his men marched all night long through the Arabah, crossed the Jordan, marched all through the morning, and came to Mahanaim.

Exodus 8:3

But the magicians did the same by their magic arts and made frogs overrun the land of Egypt.

Matthew 14:11

His head was brought in on a platter and given to the girl, who took it to her mother.

1 Samuel 17:51

Then David ran and stood over him; with the Philistine’s own sword which he drew from its sheath he killed him, and cut off his head. Flight of the Philistines. When the Philistines saw that their hero was dead, they fled.

1 Samuel 17:54

David took the head of the Philistine and brought it to Jerusalem; but he kept Goliath’s armor in his own tent. David Presented to Saul.

1 Samuel 31:9

They cut off Saul’s head and stripped him of his armor; these they sent throughout the land of the Philistines to bring the good news to the temple of their idols and to the people.