2 Samuel 18:15 - The Scriptures 2009

And ten young men who bore Yo’aḇ’s armour went around, and struck Aḇshalom and put him to death.

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King 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.

2 Samuel 18:15 Cross References

2 Samuel 12:10

And now, the sword does not turn aside from your house, because you have despised Me, and have taken the wife of Uriyah the Ḥittite to be your wife.’

2 Samuel 18:14

And Yo’aḇ said, “Let me not waste time here with you.” And he took three spears in his hand and thrust them through Aḇshalom’s heart, while he was still alive in the midst of the terebinth tree.

2 Samuel 18:16

And Yo’aḇ blew with the shophar, and the people returned from pursuing Yisra’ĕl, for Yo’aḇ had held the people back.

2 Samuel 19:11

And Sovereign Dawiḏ sent to Tsaḏoq and Eḇyathar the priests, saying, “Speak to the elders of Yehuḏah, saying, ‘Why are you the last to bring the sovereign back to his house, since the words of all Yisra’ĕl have come to the sovereign, to his house?

Job 20:5

that the singing of the wrong is short-lived, and the joy of the defiled one is but for a moment?

Psalm 37:35

Rĕsh I have seen the wrongdoer in great power, And spreading himself like a native green tree.

Proverbs 17:11

An evil one seeks only rebellion, So a cruel messenger is sent against him.

Proverbs 28:17

A man oppressed by blood-guilt flees into a pit; Let no one help him.

Ecclesiastes 10:8

He who digs a pit falls into it, and whoever breaks through a wall is bitten by a snake.