Then said Yoav, I may not tarry thus with thee. And he took three darts in his hand, and thrust them through the heart of Avshalom, while he was yet alive in the midst of the oak.
And the king commanded Yoav and Abishai and Ittai, saying, Deal gently for my sake with the young man, even with Avshalom. And all the people heard when the king gave all the captains charge concerning Avshalom.
Therefore he said unto his servants, See, Yoav's field is near mine, and he hath barley there; go and set it on fire. And Avshalom's servants set the field on fire.
She put her hand to the nail, and her right hand to the workmen's hammer; and with the hammer she smote Sisra, she smote off his head, when she had pierced and stricken through his temples.
Then Jael Heber's wife took a nail of the tent, and took an hammer in her hand, and went softly unto him, and smote the nail into his temples, and fastened it into the ground: for he was fast asleep and weary. So he died.
Now therefore the sword shall never depart from thine house; because thou hast despised me, and hast taken the wife of Uriay-yahu the Hittite to be thy wife.
And king David sent to Zadok and to Evyatar the kohanim, saying, Speak unto the elders of Yhudah, saying, Why are ye the last to bring the king back to his house? seeing the speech of all Yisrael is come to the king, even to his house.