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|2 Samuel 18:11|
Joab said to the man who had told him this, “What! You saw him? Why didn’t you strike him to the ground right there? Then I would have had to give you ten shekels [That is, about 4 ounces (about 115 grams)] of silver and a warrior’s belt.”
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|2 Samuel 18:12|
But the man replied, “Even if a thousand shekels [That is, about 25 pounds (about 11 kilograms)] were weighed out into my hands, I would not lift my hand against the king’s son. In our hearing the king commanded you and Abishai and Ittai, `Protect the young man Absalom for my sake.’ [A few Hebrew manuscripts, Septuagint, Vulgate and Syriac; most Hebrew manuscripts may be translated Absalom, whoever you may be.]
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|2 Samuel 18:13|
And if I had put my life in jeopardy — [Or Otherwise, if I had acted treacherously towards him] and nothing is hidden from the king — you would have kept your distance from me.”
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14
|2 Samuel 18:14|
Joab said, “I am not going to wait like this for you.” So he took three javelins in his hand and plunged them into Absalom’s heart while Absalom was still alive in the oak tree.
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|2 Samuel 18:15|
And ten of Joab’s armour-bearers surrounded Absalom, struck him and killed him.
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|2 Samuel 18:16|
Then Joab sounded the trumpet, and the troops stopped pursuing Israel, for Joab halted them.
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|2 Samuel 18:17|
They took Absalom, threw him into a big pit in the forest and piled up a large heap of rocks over him. Meanwhile, all the Israelites fled to their homes.
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|2 Samuel 18:18|
During his life-time Absalom had taken a pillar and erected it in the King’s Valley as a monument to himself, for he thought, “I have no son to carry on the memory of my name.” He named the pillar after himself, and it is called Absalom’s Monument to this day.
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|2 Samuel 18:19|
Now Ahimaaz son of Zadok said, “Let me run and take the news to the king that the LORD has delivered him from the hand of his enemies.”
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|2 Samuel 18:20|
“You are not the one to take the news today,” Joab told him. “You may take the news another time, but you must not do so today, because the king’s son is dead.”
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