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15 Ten young men, the ones carrying Joab’s armor and weapons, surrounded Absalom and struck and killed him.

16 Then Joab blew the ram’s horn, and the people turned back from pursuing Israel, because Joab restrained them. 17 They took Absalom and threw him into a large pit in the forest. They raised a huge pile of stones over him.

All Israel fled, everyone to his own tent.[a]

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Samuel 18:17 This is an idiom for to his own home. It is used regardless of the form of the dwelling.