2 Samuel 18:15

And they go round — ten youths bearing weapons of Joab — and smite Absalom, and put him to death.

Young's Literal Translation

In The King James Version

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

In Context

14And 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.

16And Joab bloweth with a trumpet, and the people turneth back from pursuing after Israel, for Joab hath kept back the people;

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Cross References

2 Samuel 19:11And king David sent unto Zadok and unto Abiathar the priests, saying, 'Speak ye unto the elders of Judah, saying, Why are ye last to bring back the king unto his house? (and the word of all Israel hath come unto the king, unto his house;)

Psalms 37:35I have seen the wicked terrible, And spreading as a green native plant,

Proverbs 28:17A man oppressed with the blood of a soul, Unto the pit fleeth, none taketh hold on 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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