2 Samuel 1:15
Good News Translation
Then David called one of his men and said, "Kill him!" The man struck the Amalekite and mortally wounded him,

New Revised Standard Version
Then David called one of the young men and said, “Come here and strike him down.” So he struck him down and he died.

New American Bible
David then called one of the attendants and said to him, “Come, strike him down”; so he struck him and he died.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And David calling one of his servants, said: Go near and fall upon him. And he struck him so that he died.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And David calling one of his servants, said: Go near and fall upon him. And he struck him so that he died.

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2 Samuel 4:10-12 The man that told me, and said: Saul is dead, who thought he brought good tidings, I apprehended, and slew him in Siceleg, who should have been rewarded for his news. . . .

Judges 8:20 And he said to Jether, his eldest son: Arise, and slay them. But he drew not his sword: for he was afraid, being but yet a boy.

1 Samuel 22:17,18 And the king said to the messengers that stood about him: Turn, and kill the priests of the Lord, for their hand is with David, because they knew that he was fled, and they told it not to me. And the king's servants would not put forth their hands against the priests of the Lord. . . .

1 Kings 2:25,34,46 And king Solomon sent by the hand of Banaias, the son of Joiada, who slew him, and he died. . . .

Job 5:12 Who bringeth to nought the designs of the malignant, so that their hands cannot accomplish what they had begun:

Proverbs 11:18 Clemency prepareth life: and the pursuing of evil things, death.

Context
David Learns of Saul's Death
14David said to him: Why didst thou not fear to put out thy hand to kill the Lord's anointed? 15And David calling one of his servants, said: Go near and fall upon him. And he struck him so that he died.16And David said to him: Thy blood be upon thy own head: for thy own mouth hath spoken against thee, saying: I have slain the Lord's anointed.…
Cross References
2 Samuel 4:10
The man that told me, and said: Saul is dead, who thought he brought good tidings, I apprehended, and slew him in Siceleg, who should have been rewarded for his news.

2 Samuel 4:12
And David commanded his servants and they slew them: and cutting off their hands and feet, hanged them up over the pool in Hebron: but the head of Isboseth they took and buried in the sepulchre of Abner in Hebron.

2 Samuel 1:14
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