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2 Samuel 18:15-17
New Catholic Bible
2 Samuel 18:15-17
New Catholic Bible
15 Then ten young men who served as Joab’s armor-bearers closed in on Absalom, struck him, and killed him.
16 After that, Joab ordered the trumpet to be sounded, and the soldiers ceased their pursuit of Israel because he had ordered them to halt. 17 They picked up Absalom, flung his body into a large pit in the forest, and piled up a great mound of stones over him. Meanwhile all the Israelites had fled to their tents.
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