2 Samuel 18:15

And ten young men that bore Joab's armour surrounded and smote Absalom, and killed him.

Darby Translation

In The King James Version

And ten young men that bare Joab’s armour compassed about and smote Absalom, and slew him.

In Context

14Then said Joab, I may not tarry thus with thee. And he took three spears in his hand, and thrust them into Absalom's body, while he was yet alive in the midst of the terebinth.

16And Joab blew the trumpet, and the people returned from pursuing after Israel; for Joab kept back the people.

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Cross References

2 Samuel 19:11And king David sent to Zadok and to Abiathar the priests, saying, Speak to the elders of Judah saying, Why are ye the last to bring the king back to his house? seeing the speech of all Israel is come to the king, to his house.

Psalms 37:35I have seen the wicked in great power, and spreading like a green tree in its native soil:

Proverbs 28:17A man laden with the blood of [any] person, fleeth to the pit: let no man stay him.

Matthew Henry on 2 Samuel 18:10-19

The Death of Absalom. ( b. c. 1023.) 9 And Absalom met the servants of David. And Absalom rode upon a mule, and the mule went under the thick boughs of a great oak, and his head caught hold of the oak, and he was taken up between the heaven and the earth; and the mule that was under him went away. 10 And a certain man saw it, and told Joab, and said, Behold, I saw Absalom hanged in an oak. 11 And Joab said unto the man that told him, And, behold, thou sawest him, and why didst thou not smite him there to the… Read the whole commentary →

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