2 Samuel 18:14-18

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14} Joab said, “I’m not going to waste time with you!” He then took three spears in his hand and thrust them into Absalom’s heart while he was still alive in the oak tree, ^{Tools
15} and 10 young men who were Joab’s armor-bearers surrounded Absalom, struck him, and killed him.

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16} Afterward, Joab blew the ram’s horn, and the troops broke off their pursuit of Israel because Joab restrained them. ^{Tools
17} They took Absalom, threw him into a large pit in the forest, and piled a huge mound of stones over him.^(A) And all Israel fled, each to his tent.^(B)

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18} When he was alive, Absalom had set up a pillar^(C) for himself in the King’s Valley,^(D) for he had said, “I have no son^(E) to preserve the memory of my name.” So he gave the pillar his name. It is still called Absalom’s Monument today.

Cross references:

A. 2 Samuel 18:17: Joshua 7:24-26; Joshua 8:29

B. 2 Samuel 18:17: 1 Samuel 4:10; 2 Samuel 19:8; 2 Samuel 20:1; 2 Samuel 20:22; 2 Kings 8:21

C. 2 Samuel 18:18: Genesis 28:18; Deuteronomy 16:22; 1 Samuel 15:12; 2 Kings 18:4

D. 2 Samuel 18:18: Genesis 14:17

E. 2 Samuel 18:18: 2 Samuel 14:27