2 Samuel 18:14 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹⁴ 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.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁴ Then said Joab, I may not tarry thus with thee. And he took three darts in his hand, and thrust them through the heart of Absalom, while he was yet alive in the midst of the oak.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁴ Joab said, I will not tarry thus with you. He took three darts in his hand and thrust them into the body of Absalom while he was yet alive in the midst of the oak.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁴ Then said Joab, I may not tarry thus with thee. And he took three darts in his hand, and thrust them through the heart of Absalom, while he was yet alive in the midst of the oak.

Common English Bible

¹⁴ Joab said, “I won’t waste time like this with you!” He took three sticks in his hand and drove them into Absalom’s chest while he was still alive in the oak.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁴ And Joab said, "It will not be as you wish. Instead, I will be assailing him in your sight." Then he took three lances in his hand, and he fixed them in the heart of Absalom. And while he was still clinging to life upon the oak,

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁴ And Joab said: Not as thou wilt, but will set upon him in thy sight. So he took three lances in his hand, and thrust them into the heart of Absalom. And whilst he yet panted for life, sticking on the oak,

2 Samuel 18:14 Cross References

2 Samuel 12:10

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 14:30

Then he said to his servants, “Look, Joab’s field is next to mine, and he has barley there; go and set it on fire.” So Absalom’s servants set the field on fire.

2 Samuel 18:15

And ten young men, Joab’s armor-bearers, surrounded Absalom and struck him and killed him.

2 Samuel 18:5

The king ordered Joab and Abishai and Ittai, saying, “Deal gently for my sake with the young man Absalom.” And all the people heard when the king gave orders to all the commanders concerning Absalom.

2 Samuel 19:1

It was told Joab, “The king is weeping and mourning for Absalom.”

2 Samuel 19:11

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.

Job 20:5

that the exulting of the wicked is short and the joy of the godless is but for a moment?

Psalm 37:35

I have seen the wicked oppressing and towering like a cedar of Lebanon.

Psalm 45:5

Your arrows are sharp in the heart of the king’s enemies; the peoples fall under you.

Matthew 12:40

For just as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the sea monster, so for three days and three nights the Son of Man will be in the heart of the earth.

1 Thessalonians 5:3

When they say, “There is peace and security,” then sudden destruction will come upon them, as labor pains come upon a pregnant woman, and there will be no escape!

Judges 4:21

But Jael wife of Heber took a tent peg and took a hammer in her hand and went softly to him and drove the peg into his temple, until it went down into the ground—he was lying fast asleep from weariness—and he died.

Judges 5:26

She put her hand to the tent peg and her right hand to the workers’ mallet; she struck Sisera a blow; she crushed his head; she shattered and pierced his temple.

Judges 5:31

So perish all your enemies, O Lord! But may your friends be like the sun as it rises in its might.” And the land had rest forty years.