2 Samuel 18:14

New Living Translation

“Enough of this nonsense,” Joab said. Then he took three daggers and plunged them into Absalom’s heart as he dangled, still alive, in the great tree.

Cross References

2 Samuel 12:10

From this time on, your family will live by the sword because you have despised me by taking Uriah’s wife to be your own.

2 Samuel 14:30

So Absalom said to his servants, “Go and set fire to Joab’s barley field, the field next to mine.” So they set his field on fire, as Absalom had commanded.

2 Samuel 18:15

Ten of Joab’s young armor bearers then surrounded Absalom and killed him.

2 Samuel 18:5

And the king gave this command to Joab, Abishai, and Ittai: “For my sake, deal gently with young Absalom.” And all the troops heard the king give this order to his commanders.

2 Samuel 19:1

Word soon reached Joab that the king was weeping and mourning for Absalom.

2 Samuel 19:11

Then King David sent Zadok and Abiathar, the priests, to say to the elders of Judah, “Why are you the last ones to welcome back the king into his palace? For I have heard that all Israel is ready.

Job 20:5

the triumph of the wicked has been short lived and the joy of the godless has been only temporary?

Psalm 37:35

I have seen wicked and ruthless people flourishing like a tree in its native soil.

Psalm 45:5

Your arrows are sharp, piercing your enemies’ hearts. The nations fall beneath your feet.

Matthew 12:40

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

1 Thessalonians 5:3

When people are saying, “Everything is peaceful and secure,” then disaster will fall on them as suddenly as a pregnant woman’s labor pains begin. And there will be no escape.

Judges 4:21

But when Sisera fell asleep from exhaustion, Jael quietly crept up to him with a hammer and tent peg in her hand. Then she drove the tent peg through his temple and into the ground, and so he died.

Judges 5:26

Then with her left hand she reached for a tent peg, and with her right hand for the workman’s hammer. She struck Sisera with the hammer, crushing his head. With a shattering blow, she pierced his temples.

Judges 5:31

“Lord, may all your enemies die like Sisera! But may those who love you rise like the sun in all its power!” Then there was peace in the land for forty years.