2 Samuel 18:15

And tenne seruants that bare Ioabs armour, compassed about and smote Absalom, and slewe him.

Geneva Bible 1599

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 saide Ioab, I will not thus tary with thee. And he tooke three dartes in his hande, and thrust them through Absalom, while he was yet aliue in the middes of the oke.

16Then Ioab blewe the trumpet, and the people returned from pursuing after Israel: for Ioab helde backe the people.

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Cross References

2 Samuel 19:11But King Dauid sent to Zadok and to Abiathar the Priestes, saying, Speake vnto the Elders of Iudah, and say, Why are ye behind to bring the King againe to his house, (for the saying of al Israel is come vnto the king, euen to his house)

Psalms 37:35I haue seene the wicked strong, and spreading himselfe like a greene bay tree.

Proverbs 28:17A man that doeth violence against the blood of a person, shall flee vnto the graue, and they shall not 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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