2 Samuel 18:14
And Joab said, Not thus, may I tarry before thee. And he took three darts in his hand, and thrust them into the heart of Absolom, while he was yet alive in the midst of the oak.
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
In The King James Version
In Context
15Then came round ten young men who bare Joab’s armour,—and smote Absolom, and slew him.
Cross References
Judges 4:21Then took Jael, wife of Heber, the tent-pin, and put the mallet in her hand, and went in unto him, softly, and smote the tent-pin into his temples, and it pierced through into the ground,—he being fast asleep and shrouded in darkness, and he died.
Judges 5:31So, perish all thine enemies, O Yahweh, But be, they who love him, as the going forth of the sun, in his might! And the land had rest forty years.
2 Samuel 14:30Then said he unto his servants—See, the allotted portion of Joab, adjoineth me, and, he, hath barley there, go, and set it on fire. So the servants of Absolom set the portion on fire.
2 Samuel 19:1And it was told Joab,—Lo! the king, is weeping and mourning over Absolom.
Job 20:5That, the joy-shout of the lawless, is short, and, the rejoicing of the impious, for a moment?
Psalms 45:5Thine arrows, are sharp—Peoples, under thee, fall! In the heart of the foes of the king.
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 →