Now therefore the sword shall never depart from your house, for you have despised me, and have taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be your wife.
2 Samuel 18:15 - New Revised Standard Version And ten young men, Joab's armor-bearers, surrounded Absalom and struck him, and killed him. Dugang nga mga bersyonKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 And ten young men that bare Joab's armour compassed about and smote Absalom, and slew him. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition And ten young men, Joab's armor-bearers, surrounded and struck Absalom and killed him. American Standard Version (1901) And ten young men that bare Joab’s armor compassed about and smote Absalom, and slew him. Common English Bible Then ten young armor-bearers of Joab surrounded Absalom, struck him, and killed him. Catholic Public Domain Version ten young men, armor bearers of Joab, ran up, and striking him, they killed him. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Ten young men, armourbearers of Joab, ran up, and striking him slew him. |
Now therefore the sword shall never depart from your house, for you have despised me, and have taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be your wife.
Joab said, “I will not waste time like this with you.” He took three spears in his hand, and thrust them into the heart of Absalom, while he was still alive in the oak.
Then Joab sounded the trumpet, and the troops came back from pursuing Israel, for Joab restrained the troops.
King David sent this message to the priests Zadok and Abiathar, “Say to the elders of Judah, ‘Why should you be the last to bring the king back to his house? The talk of all Israel has come to the king.
that the exulting of the wicked is short, and the joy of the godless is but for a moment?
I have seen the wicked oppressing, and towering like a cedar of Lebanon.
Evil people seek only rebellion, but a cruel messenger will be sent against them.
If someone is burdened with the blood of another, let that killer be a fugitive until death; let no one offer assistance.
Whoever digs a pit will fall into it; and whoever breaks through a wall will be bitten by a snake.