2 Samuel 18:15
And ten young men, Joab's armor-bearers, encompassed and smote Abshalom, and slew him.
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
And ten young men that bare Joab’s armour compassed about and smote Absalom, and slew him.
In Context
Cross References
2 Samuel 19:11(19:12) And king David sent to Zadok and to Ebyathar the priests, saying, Speak ye unto the elders of Judah, saying, Why will you be the last to bring the king back to his house? seeing the speech of all Israel is already come to the king, to his house.
Psalms 37:35I have seen the wicked terrible in power, and striking root like a green tree in its native soil.
Proverbs 28:17A man oppressed by the load of having shed human blood will flee even to the pit: let no man hold 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 →