gltv - 2Samuel:18:1-18

gltv@2Samuel:18:1 @ And David mustered the people who were with him, and he set over them commanders of hundreds.

gltv@2Samuel:18:2 @ And David sent one third of the people by the hand of Joab, and one third by the hand of Abishai the son of Zeruiah, Joab's brother, and one third by Ittai the Gittite. And the king said to the people. Going out I will go with you, I also.

gltv@2Samuel:18:3 @ And the people said, You shall not go out, for if we flee they will not set their heart on us even if half of us die; for now you are like ten thousand to us. And now it is better that you be a helper for us from the city.

gltv@2Samuel:18:4 @ And the king said to them, I will do that which is good in your eyes. And the king stood at the side of the gate, and all the people went out by hundreds and by thousands.

gltv@2Samuel:18:5 @ And the king commanded Joab, and Abishai, and Ittai, saying, For my sake deal gently with the young man, with Absalom. And all the people heard as the king commanded the commanders concerning Absalom.

gltv@2Samuel:18:6 @ And the people went into the field to meet Israel. And the battle was in the forest of Ephraim.

gltv@2Samuel:18:7 @ And the people of Israel were stricken before David's servants. And there was a great destruction on that day of twenty thousand.

gltv@2Samuel:18:8 @ And the battle was scattered over the face of all the land, and the forest devoured among the people more than the sword had devoured in that day.

gltv@2Samuel:18:9 @ And Absalom came before David's servants. And Absalom was riding on a mule, and the mule came in under the thick branches of a great oak. And his head caught hold in the oak, and he was lifted up between the heavens and the earth. And the mule under him passed on.

gltv@2Samuel:18:10 @ And a man saw and told Joab, and said, Behold! I saw Absalom hanging in the oak;

gltv@2Samuel:18:11 @ and Joab said to the man who told him, And behold, you have seen. And why did you not strike him to the earth there and call on me to give you ten silverlings and a girdle?

gltv@2Samuel:18:12 @ And the man said to Joab, Yes, though I weighed a thousand silverlings in my hand, I would not put forth my hand to the king's son. For in our ears the king commanded you, and Abishai, and Ittai saying, Take heed, whoever goes against the young man, against Absalom.

gltv@2Samuel:18:13 @ Or I would have dealt falsely against my soul. For no matter is hidden from the king, and you, you yourself would have set against me.

gltv@2Samuel:18:14 @ And Joab said, I will not wait this wait before you. And he took three darts in his hand and struck them into Absalom's heart while he was alive, in the midst of the oak.

gltv@2Samuel:18:15 @ And they went around, ten young men bearing Joab's weapons, and struck Absalom, and killed him.

gltv@2Samuel:18:16 @ And Joab blew the ram's horn, and the people returned from pursuing Israel, for Joab had held the people back.

gltv@2Samuel:18:17 @ And they took Absalom and threw him into a great pit in the forest, and set up a very great heap of stones over him. And all Israel fled, each one to his tent.

gltv@2Samuel:18:18 @ And during his lifetime Absalom had taken and set up for himself a standing-pillar, which is in the King's Valley. For he said, I have no son to cause my name to be remembered. And he called the standing pillar by his name and it is called Absalom's Monument to this day.