2Samuel:18:1-18
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2Samuel:18:1 @
And David had the people who were with him numbered ,
and he put over them captains of thousands and captains of hundreds .
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2Samuel:18:2 @
And David sent the people out ,
a third of them under the orders of Joab ,
and a third under the orders of Abishai ,
son of Zeruiah ,
Joab '
s brother ,
and a third under Ittai the Gittite .
And the king said to the people ,
And I myself will certainly go out with you .
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2Samuel:18:3 @
But the people said ,
It is better for you not to go out :
for if we are put to flight ,
they will not give a thought to us ,
and if death overtakes half of us ,
it will be nothing to them :
but you are of more value than ten thousand of us :
so it is better for you to be ready to come to our help from this town .
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2Samuel:18:4 @
And the king said to them ,
I will do whatever seems best to you .
So the king took his place by the door of the town ,
and all the people went out by hundreds and by thousands .
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2Samuel:18:5 @
And the king gave orders to Joab and Abishai and Ittai ,
saying ,
Because of me ,
be gentle to the young man Absalom .
And this order about Absalom was given in the hearing of all the people .
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2Samuel:18:6 @
So the people went out into the field against Israel ,
and the fight took place in the woods of Ephraim .
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2Samuel:18:7 @
And the people of Israel were overcome there by the servants of David ,
and there was a great destruction that day ,
and twenty thousand men were put to the sword .
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2Samuel:18:8 @
And the fighting went on over all the face of the country :
and the woods were responsible for more deaths than the sword .
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2Samuel:18:9 @
And Absalom came across some of David '
s men .
And Absalom was seated on his mule ,
and the mule went under the thick branches of a great tree ,
and his head became fixed in the tree and he was lifted up between earth and heaven ,
and the beast under him went on .
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2Samuel:18:10 @
And a certain man saw it and said to Joab ,
I saw Absalom hanging in a tree
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2Samuel:18:11 @
And Joab said to the man who had given him the news ,
If you saw this ,
why did you not put your sword through him ,
and I would have given you ten bits of silver and a band for your robe ?
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2Samuel:18:12 @
And the man said to Joab ,
Even if you gave me a thousand bits of silver ,
I would not put out my hand against the king '
s son :
for in our hearing the king gave orders to you and Abishai and Ittai ,
saying ,
Take care that the young man Absalom is not touched .
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2Samuel:18:13 @
And if I had falsely put him to death (
and nothing may be kept secret from the king ),
you would have had nothing to do with me .
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2Samuel:18:14 @
Then Joab said ,
I would have made it safe for you .
And he took three spears in his hand ,
and put them through Absalom '
s heart ,
while he was still living ,
in the branches of the tree .
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2Samuel:18:15 @
And ten young men ,
servants of Joab ,
came round Absalom and put an end to him .
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2Samuel:18:16 @
And Joab had the horn sounded ,
and the people came back from going after Israel ,
for Joab kept them back .
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2Samuel:18:17 @
And they took Absalom '
s body and put it into a great hole in the wood ,
and put a great mass of stones over it :
and every man of Israel went in flight to his tent .
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2Samuel:18:18 @
Now Absalom ,
before his death ,
had put up for himself a pillar in the king '
s valley ,
naming it after himself ;
for he said ,
I have no son to keep my name in memory :
and to this day it is named Absalom '
s pillar .
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