2 Samuel 18:15 - Tree of Life Version

¹⁵ Then ten young men who were Joab’s armor-bearers surrounded Absalom, struck and finished him off.

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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

So now the sword will 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

“I won’t wait for you!” Joab said. So he took three darts in his hand and thrust them through Absalom’s heart while he was yet alive in the midst of the oak.

2 Samuel 18:16

Then Joab blew the shofar and the troops returned from pursuing Israel, for Joab held back the troops.

2 Samuel 19:11

but Absalom, whom we anointed over us, has died in battle. So why are we silent about restoring the king?”

Job 20:5

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

Psalm 37:35

I have seen a wicked, ruthless man flourishing like a leafy tree in native soil.

Proverbs 17:11

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

Proverbs 28:17

A man tormented by the guilt of murder flees to the Pit—let no one support him.

Ecclesiastes 10:8

Whoever digs a pit may fall into it, and whoever breaks through a fence may be bitten by a snake.