2 Samuel 18:14

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

Joab said, ‘I’m not going to waste time with you! ’ He then took three spears  in his hand and thrust them into Absalom’s chest. While Absalom was still alive in the oak tree,

Cross References

1 Thessalonians 5:3

When they say, ‘Peace and security’, then sudden destruction  will come upon them, like labour pains on a pregnant woman, and they will not escape.

Matthew 12:40

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

2 Samuel 18:5

The king commanded Joab, Abishai, and Ittai, ‘Treat the young man Absalom gently for my sake.’ All the people heard the king’s orders to all the commanders about Absalom.

2 Samuel 14:30

Then Absalom said to his servants, ‘See, Joab has a field right next to mine, and he has barley there. Go and set fire to it! ’ So Absalom’s servants set the field on fire.

Judges 5:31

Lord, may all your enemies perish as Sisera did. But may those who love him be like the rising of the sun in its strength. And the land had peace for forty years.

Judges 5:26

She reached for a tent peg, her right hand, for a workman’s hammer. Then she hammered Sisera – she crushed his head; she shattered and pierced his temple.

Judges 4:21

While he was sleeping from exhaustion, Heber’s wife, Jael, took a tent peg, grabbed a hammer, and went silently to Sisera. She hammered the peg into his temple and drove it into the ground, and he died.

2 Samuel 12:10

Now therefore, the sword will never leave your house  because you despised me and took the wife of Uriah the Hethite to be your own wife.”

2 Samuel 18:15

ten young men who were Joab’s armour-bearers surrounded Absalom, struck him, and killed him.

2 Samuel 19:1

It was reported to Joab, ‘The king is weeping. He’s mourning over Absalom.’

2 Samuel 19:11

King David sent word to the priests Zadok and Abiathar:  ‘Say to the elders of Judah, “Why should you be the last to restore the king to his palace? The talk of all Israel has reached the king at his house.

Job 20:5

the joy of the wicked has been brief and the happiness of the godless has lasted only a moment?