2 Samuel 18:14

God's Word

Then Joab said, “I shouldn’t waste time with you like this.” He took three sharp sticks and plunged them into Absalom’s heart while he was still alive in the tree.

Cross References

2 Samuel 12:10

So warfare will never leave your house because you despised me and took the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be your wife.

2 Samuel 14:30

So Absalom said to his servants, “Look, Joab’s field is next to mine. He has barley in it. Go and set it on fire.” So Absalom’s servants set it on fire. Joab’s servants came to him ⌞in grief⌟ and said, “Absalom’s servants have set ⌞your⌟ field on fire.”

2 Samuel 18:15

Then ten of Joab’s armorbearers surrounded Absalom, attacked him, and killed him.

2 Samuel 18:5

The king ordered Joab, Abishai, and Ittai, “Treat the young man Absalom gently for my sake.” All the troops heard him give all the commanders this order regarding Absalom.

2 Samuel 19:1

Joab was told, “The king is crying and mourning for Absalom.”

2 Samuel 19:11

What all Israel was saying reached the king at his house. So King David sent ⌞this message⌟ to the priests Zadok and Abiathar: “Ask the leaders of Judah, ‘Why should you be the last ⌞tribe⌟ to bring the king back to his palace?

Job 20:5

the triumph of the wicked is short-lived, and the joy of the godless person lasts only a moment?

Psalm 37:35

I have seen a wicked person ⌞acting like⌟ a tyrant, spreading himself out like a large cedar tree.

Psalm 45:5

Your arrows are sharp in the heart of the king’s enemies. Nations fall beneath you.

Matthew 12:40

Just as Jonah was in the belly of a 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.

1 Thessalonians 5:3

When people say, “Everything is safe and sound!” destruction will suddenly strike them. It will be as sudden as labor pains come to a pregnant woman. They won’t be able to escape.

Judges 4:21

When Sisera had fallen sound asleep from exhaustion, Jael, Heber’s wife, took a tent peg and walked quietly toward him with a hammer in her hand. She hammered the tent peg through his temples into the ground. So Sisera died.

Judges 5:26

She reached for a tent peg with one hand, for a workman’s hammer with the other. She struck Sisera. She crushed his head. She shattered and pierced his temples.

Judges 5:31

May all your enemies die like that, O Lord. But may those who love the Lord be like the sun when it rises in all its brightness. So the land had peace for 40 years.