2 Samuel 18:15

And ten young men who carried Joab’s armor surrounded Absalom, struck him, and killed him.

Majority Standard Bible

In The King James Version

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

In Context

14But Joab declared, “I am not going to wait like this with you!” And he took three spears in his hand and thrust them through the heart of Absalom while he was still alive in the oak tree.

16Then Joab blew the ram’s horn, and the troops broke off their pursuit of Israel because Joab had restrained them.

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Cross References

2 Samuel 19:11Then King David sent this message to Zadok and Abiathar, the priests: “Say to the elders of Judah, ‘Why should you be the last to restore the king to his palace, since the talk of all Israel has reached the king at his quarters?

Psalms 37:35I have seen a wicked, ruthless man flourishing like a well-rooted native tree,

Proverbs 28:17A man burdened by bloodguilt will flee into the Pit; let no one support 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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