The king said, “He must be bringing good news, ( V) too.”Ģ7 The watchman said, “It seems to me that the first one runs like ( W) Ahimaaz son of Zadok.” The king said, “If he is alone, he must have good news.” And the runner came closer and closer.Ģ6 Then the watchman saw another runner, and he called down to the gatekeeper, “Look, another man running alone!” 25 The watchman called out to the king and reported it. As he looked out, he saw a man running alone. So Joab said, “Run!” Then Ahimaaz ran by way of the plain and outran the Cushite.Ģ4 While David was sitting between the inner and outer gates, the watchman ( U) went up to the roof of the gateway by the wall. “You may take the news another time, but you must not do so today, because the king’s son is dead.”Ģ1 Then Joab said to a Cushite, “Go, tell the king what you have seen.” The Cushite bowed down before Joab and ran off.Ģ2 Ahimaaz son of Zadok again said to Joab, “Come what may, please let me run behind the Cushite.”īut Joab replied, “My son, why do you want to go? You don’t have any news that will bring you a reward.”Ģ3 He said, “Come what may, I want to run.” ( T)”Ģ0 “You are not the one to take the news today,” Joab told him. David Mournsġ9 Now Ahimaaz ( S) son of Zadok said, “Let me run and take the news to the king that the Lord has vindicated him by delivering him from the hand of his enemies. Meanwhile, all the Israelites fled to their homes.ġ8 During his lifetime Absalom had taken a pillar and erected it in the King’s Valley ( P) as a monument ( Q) to himself, for he thought, “I have no son ( R) to carry on the memory of my name.” He named the pillar after himself, and it is called Absalom’s Monument to this day. 17 They took Absalom, threw him into a big pit in the forest and piled up ( N) a large heap of rocks ( O) over him. ( L)ġ6 Then Joab ( M) sounded the trumpet, and the troops stopped pursuing Israel, for Joab halted them. 15 And ten of Joab’s armor-bearers surrounded Absalom, struck him and killed him. ’ 13 And if I had put my life in jeopardy -and nothing is hidden from the king ( J)-you would have kept your distance from me.”ġ4 Joab ( K) said, “I’m not going to wait like this for you.” So he took three javelins in his hand and plunged them into Absalom’s heart while Absalom was still alive in the oak tree. In our hearing the king commanded you and Abishai and Ittai, ‘Protect the young man Absalom for my sake. ( I)”ġ2 But the man replied, “Even if a thousand shekels were weighed out into my hands, I would not lay a hand on the king’s son. He was left hanging in midair, while the mule he was riding kept on going.ġ0 When one of the men saw what had happened, he told Joab, “I just saw Absalom hanging in an oak tree.”ġ1 Joab said to the man who had told him this, “What! You saw him? Why didn’t you strike ( H) him to the ground right there? Then I would have had to give you ten shekels of silver and a warrior’s belt.
He was riding his mule, and as the mule went under the thick branches of a large oak, Absalom’s hair ( G) got caught in the tree. 8 The battle spread out over the whole countryside, and the forest swallowed up more men that day than the sword.ĩ Now Absalom happened to meet David’s men.
7 There Israel’s troops were routed by David’s men, and the casualties that day were great-twenty thousand men. 5 The king commanded Joab, Abishai and Ittai, “Be gentle with the young man Absalom for my sake.” And all the troops heard the king giving orders concerning Absalom to each of the commanders.Ħ David’s army marched out of the city to fight Israel, and the battle took place in the forest ( F) of Ephraim. So the king stood beside the gate while all his men marched out in units of hundreds and of thousands. It would be better now for you to give us support from the city.” ( E)Ĥ The king answered, “I will do whatever seems best to you.” Even if half of us die, they won’t care but you are worth ten ( D) thousand of us. The king told the troops, “I myself will surely march out with you.”ģ But the men said, “You must not go out if we are forced to flee, they won’t care about us. 2 David sent out his troops, ( A) a third under the command of Joab, a third under Joab’s brother Abishai ( B) son of Zeruiah, and a third under Ittai ( C) the Gittite. 18 David mustered the men who were with him and appointed over them commanders of thousands and commanders of hundreds.
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