2 Samuel 18:15 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

¹⁵ And ten young men that bare Joab's armour compassed about and smote Absalom, and slew 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 thine house; because thou hast despised me, and hast taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be thy wife.

2 Samuel 18:14

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.

2 Samuel 18:16

And Joab blew the trumpet, and the people returned from pursuing after Israel: for Joab held back the people.

2 Samuel 19:11

And king David sent to Zadok and to Abiathar the priests, saying, Speak unto the elders of Judah, saying, Why are ye the last to bring the king back to his house? seeing the speech of all Israel is come to the king, to bring him to his house.

Job 20:5

That the triumphing of the wicked is short, And the joy of the godless but for a moment?

Psalm 37:35

I have seen the wicked in great power, And spreading himself like a green tree in its native soil.

Proverbs 17:11

An evil man seeketh only rebellion; Therefore a cruel messenger shall be sent against him.

Proverbs 28:17

A man that is laden with the blood of any person Shall flee unto the pit; let no man stay him.

Ecclesiastes 10:8

He that diggeth a pit shall fall into it; and whoso breaketh through a fence, a serpent shall bite him.