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2Sa 4:7 Strong Concordance For when they came [0935] into the house [01004], he lay [07901] on his bed [04296] in his bedchamber [02315] [04904], and they smote [05221] him, and slew [04191] him, and beheaded [05493] him, and took [03947] his head [07218], and gat them away [03212] through [01870] the plain [06160] all night [03915].
  King James For when they came into the house, he lay on his bed in his bedchamber, and they smote him, and slew him, and beheaded him, and took his head, and gat them away through the plain all night.

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A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882]
when they came into the house, he lay on his bed--Rechab and Baanah came in the heat of the day, when they knew that Ish-bosheth, their master, would be resting on his divan; and as it was necessary, for the reason just given, to have the corn the day before it was needed, their coming at that time, though it might be a little earlier than usual, created no suspicion, and attracted no notice [HARMER].

gat them away through the plain--that is, the valley of the Jordan, through which their way lay from Mahanaim to Hebron.
 
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29 And Abner [074] and his men [0582] walked [01980] all that night [03915] through the plain [06160], and passed over [05674] Jordan [03383], and went through [03212] all Bithron [01338], and they came [0935] to Mahanaim [04266].
6 And they came thither [0935] into the midst [08432] of the house [01004], as though they would have fetched [03947] wheat [02406]; and they smote [05221] him under the fifth [02570] rib: and Rechab [07394] and Baanah [01196] his brother [0251] escaped [04422].
7 For when they came [0935] into the house [01004], he lay [07901] on his bed [04296] in his bedchamber [02315] [04904], and they smote [05221] him, and slew [04191] him, and beheaded [05493] him, and took [03947] his head [07218], and gat them away [03212] through [01870] the plain [06160] all night [03915].