bes - 2Samuel:18:1-18

bes@2Samuel:18:1 @ And David numbered the people with him, and set over them captains of thousands and captains of hundreds.

bes@2Samuel:18:2 @ And David sent away the people, the third part (note:)Gr. in, by(:note) under the hand of Joab, and the third part under the hand of Abessa the son of Saruia, the brother of Joab, and the third part under the hand of Ethi the Gittite. And David said to the people, I also will surely go out with you.

bes@2Samuel:18:3 @ And they said, Thou shalt not go out: for if we should indeed flee, they will not care for us; and if half of us should die, they will not mind us; for thou art (note:)Gr. as we, ten thousand(:note) as ten thousand of us: and now it is well that thou shalt be to us an aid to help us in the city.

bes@2Samuel:18:4 @ And the king said to them, Whatsoever shall seem good in your eyes I will do. And the king stood by the (note:)Gr. hand(:note) side of the gate, and all the people went out by hundreds and by thousands.

bes@2Samuel:18:5 @ And the king commanded Joab and Abessa and Ethi, saying, Spare for my sake the young man Abessalom. And all the people heard the king charging all the commanders concerning Abessalom.

bes@2Samuel:18:6 @ And all the people went out into the wood against Israel; and the battle was in the wood of Ephraim.

bes@2Samuel:18:7 @ And the people of Israel fell down there before the servants of David, and there was a great slaughter in that day, even twenty thousand men.

bes@2Samuel:18:8 @ And the battle there was scattered over the face of all the land: and the wood consumed more of the people than the sword consumed among the people in that day.

bes@2Samuel:18:9 @ And Abessalom went to meet the servants of David: and Abessalom was mounted on his mule, and the mule came under the thick boughs of a great oak; and his head was entangled in the oak, and he was suspended between heaven and earth; and the mule passed on from under him.

bes@2Samuel:18:10 @ And a man saw it, and reported to Joab, and said, Behold, I saw Abessalom hanging in an oak.

bes@2Samuel:18:11 @ And Joab said to the man who reported it to him, And, behold, thou didst see him: why didst thou not smite him there to the ground? and I would have given thee ten pieces of silver, and a girdle.

bes@2Samuel:18:12 @ And the man said to Joab, Were I even to (note:)Gr. weigh upon my hands(:note) receive a thousand shekels of silver, I would not lift my hand against the king’s son; for in our ears the king charged thee and Abessa and Ethi, saying, Take care of the young man Abessalom for me,

bes@2Samuel:18:13 @ so as to do no harm to his life: and nothing of the matter will be concealed from the king, and thou wilt set thyself against me.

bes@2Samuel:18:14 @ And Joab said, I will begin this; I will not thus remain with thee. And Joab took three darts in his hand, and thrust them into the heart of Abessalom, while he was yet alive in the heart of the oak.

bes@2Samuel:18:15 @ And ten young men that bore Joab’s armour compassed Abessalom, and smote him and slew him.

bes@2Samuel:18:16 @ And Joab blew the trumpet, and the people returned from pursuing Israel, for Joab spared the people.

bes@2Samuel:18:17 @ And he took Abessalom, and cast him into a great cavern in the wood, into a deep pit, and set up over him a very great heap of stones: and all Israel fled every man to his tent.

bes@2Samuel:18:18 @ Now Abessalom while yet alive had taken and set up for himself the pillar (note:)Gr. in, or by(:note) near which he was taken, and set it up so as to have the pillar in the king’s dale; for he said he had no son to keep his name in remembrance: Hebrews. and Alex. insert, «and he called the pillar after his own name’ and he called the pillar, Abessalom’s Heb. idiom for «place’ hand, until this day.