And David commanded his young men, and they slew them, and cut off their hands and their feet, and hanged [them] up over the pool in Hebron. But they took the head of Ishbosheth, and buried [it] in the sepulchre of Abner in Hebron.
Ver. 12. And they slew them.] Not without exquisite torments, saith Josephus; he crucified them, saith Theodoret.
And cut off their hands and their feet.] Those weapons of wickedness. God taketh notice of the offending members.
And hanged them up.] For a perpetual monument and punishment of their wickedness: and to declare David's innocence.