Then ten young men who were Joab’s armor-bearers surrounded Absalom, struck and finished him off.
So now the sword will never depart from your house—because you have despised Me and have taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be your wife.
“I won’t wait for you!” Joab said. So he took three darts in his hand and thrust them through Absalom’s heart while he was yet alive in the midst of the oak.
Then Joab blew the shofar and the troops returned from pursuing Israel, for Joab held back the troops.
but Absalom, whom we anointed over us, has died in battle. So why are we silent about restoring the king?”
that the triumph of the wicked is short and the joy of the godless is but for a moment?
I have seen a wicked, ruthless man flourishing like a leafy tree in native soil.
An evil man seeks only rebellion, and so a cruel messenger will be sent against him.
A man tormented by the guilt of murder flees to the Pit—let no one support him.
Whoever digs a pit may fall into it, and whoever breaks through a fence may be bitten by a snake.