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15 Then ten of Joab's own guards came around Absalom. They knocked him down and they killed him.

16 Then Joab made a sound with his trumpet to stop the battle. So his soldiers stopped chasing after Israel's soldiers. 17 They took Absalom's dead body and they threw it into a deep hole in the forest. They made a big heap of stones over the body.

All the Israelite soldiers ran back to their homes.

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