2 Samuel 18:14
And Joab saith, 'Not right — I tarry before thee;' and he taketh three darts in his hand, and striketh them into the heart of Absalom, while he [is] alive, in the midst of the oak.
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
In Context
15And they go round — ten youths bearing weapons of Joab — and smite Absalom, and put him to death.
Cross References
Judges 4:21And Jael wife of Heber taketh the pin of the tent, and taketh the hammer in her hand, and goeth unto him gently, and striketh the pin into his temples, and it fasteneth in the earth — and he hath been fast asleep, and is weary — and he dieth.
Judges 5:31So do all Thine enemies perish, O Jehovah, And those loving Him [are] As the going out of the sun in its might!' and the land resteth forty years.
2 Samuel 14:30And he saith unto his servants, 'See, the portion of Joab [is] by the side of mine, and he hath barley there; go, and burn it with fire;' and the servants of Absalom burn the portion with fire.
2 Samuel 19:1And it is declared to Joab, 'Lo, the king is weeping and mourning for Absalom;'
Job 20:5That the singing of the wicked [is] short, And the joy of the profane for a moment,
Psalms 45:5Thine arrows [are] sharp, — Peoples fall under Thee — In the heart of the enemies 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 →