2 Samuel 18:15 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

¹⁵ And ten young men, Joab's armor-bearers, surrounded Absalom and struck him, and killed him.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁵ And ten young men that bare Joab's armour compassed about and smote Absalom, and slew him.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁵ And ten young men, Joab's armor-bearers, surrounded and struck Absalom and killed him.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁵ And ten young men that bare Joab’s armor compassed about and smote Absalom, and slew him.

Common English Bible

¹⁵ Then ten young armor-bearers of Joab surrounded Absalom, struck him, and killed him.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁵ ten young men, armor bearers of Joab, ran up, and striking him, they killed him.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁵ Ten young men, armourbearers of Joab, ran up, and striking him slew him.

2 Samuel 18:15 Cross References

2 Samuel 12:10

Now therefore the sword shall never depart from your house, because you have despised me, and have taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be your wife.’

2 Samuel 18:14

Joab said, “I will not waste time like this with you.” And he took three darts in his hand, and thrust them into the heart of Absalom, while he was still alive in the oak.

2 Samuel 18:16

Then Joab blew the trumpet, and the troops came back from pursuing Israel; for Joab restrained them.

2 Samuel 19:11

And King David sent this message to Zadok and Abiathar the priests, “Say to the elders of Judah, ‘Why should you be the last to bring the king back to his house, when the word 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 but for a moment?

Psalm 37:35

I have seen a wicked man overbearing, and towering like a cedar of Lebanon.

Proverbs 17:11

An evil man seeks only rebellion, and a cruel messenger will be sent against him.

Proverbs 28:17

If a man is burdened with the blood of another, let him be a fugitive until death; let no one help him.

Ecclesiastes 10:8

He who digs a pit will fall into it; and a serpent will bite him who breaks through a wall.