15Ten young men, armourbearers of Joab, ran up, and striking him slew him.


In Context

12 And he said to Joab: If thou wouldst have paid down in my hands a thousand pieces of silver, I would not lay my hands upon the king's son: for in our hearing he king charged thee, and Abisai, and Ethai, saying: Save me the boy Absalom.

13 Yea and if I should have acted boldly against my own life, this could not have been hid from the king, and wouldst thou have stood by me?

14 And Joab said: Not as thou wilt, but will set upon him in thy sight. So he took three lances in his hand, and thrust them into the heart of Absalom: and whilst he yet panted for life, sticking on the oak,

15 Ten young men, armourbearers of Joab, ran up, and striking him slew him.

16 And Joab sounded the trumpet, and kept back the people from pursuing after Israel in their flight, being willing to spare the multitude.

17 And they took Absalom, and cast him into a great pit in the forest, and they laid an exceeding great heap of stories upon him: but all Israel fled to their own dwellings.

2 Samuel 18:15 in Other Translations

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

18:15And ten of Joab's armor-bearers surrounded Absalom, struck him and killed him.

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

18:15And ten young men that bare Joab’s armour compassed about and smote Absalom, and slew him.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

18:15And ten young men that bare Joab's armor compassed about and smote Absalom, and slew him.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

18:15And ten young men that bore Joab's armour surrounded and smote Absalom, and killed him.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

18:15And ten young men that bare Joab's armour compassed about and smote Absalom, and slew him.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

18:15And ten young men that bore Joab's armor compassed about and smote Absalom, and slew him.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

18:15Ten young men who bore Joab's armor surrounded and struck Absalom, and killed him.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

18:15And they go round — ten youths bearing weapons of Joab — and smite Absalom, and put him to death.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

18:15And ten young men that bore Joab's armor compassed about and smote Absalom, and slew him.