Now when they came into the house, as he lay on his bed in his bedchamber, they smote him, and slew him, and beheaded him, and took his head, and went by the way of the Arabah all night.
Soþeli whanne þei hadden entrid in to þe hous, he slepte on his bedde in a closet; and þei smytiden and killiden hym; and whanne his heed was takun, þei yeden bi þe weie of deseert in al þe nyyt.