2 Samuel 18:14Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 versionAnd 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, See the chapter |
So Jahel, Haber's wife, took a nail of the tent, and taking also a hammer, and going in softly, and with silence, she put the nail upon the temples of his head, and striking it with the hammer, drove it through his brain fast into the ground. And so passing from deep sleep to death, he fainted away and died.