2 Samuel 18:15
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New International Version (©2011)
And ten of Joab's armor-bearers surrounded Absalom, struck him and killed him.

New Living Translation (©2007)
Ten of Joab's young armor bearers then surrounded Absalom and killed him.

English Standard Version (©2001)
And ten young men, Joab’s armor-bearers, surrounded Absalom and struck him and killed him.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
And ten young men who carried Joab's armor gathered around and struck Absalom and killed him.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
And ten young men that bare Joab's armour compassed about and smote Absalom, and slew him.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
and 10 young men who were Joab's armor-bearers surrounded Absalom, struck him, and killed him.

International Standard Version (©2012)
Ten young men who served as Joab's personal assistants then surrounded Absalom, striking him repeatedly and killing him.

NET Bible (©2006)
Then ten soldiers who were Joab's armor bearers struck Absalom and finished him off.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
Then ten of Joab's armorbearers surrounded Absalom, attacked him, and killed him.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
And ten young men that bore Joab's armor compassed about and struck Absalom, and slew him.

American King James Version
And ten young men that bore Joab's armor compassed about and smote Absalom, and slew him.

American Standard Version
And ten young men that bare Joab's armor compassed about and smote Absalom, and slew him.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Ten young men, armourbearers of Joab, ran up, and striking him slew him.

Darby Bible Translation
And ten young men that bore Joab's armour surrounded and smote Absalom, and killed him.

English Revised Version
And ten young men that bare Joab's armour compassed about and smote Absalom, and slew him.

Webster's Bible Translation
And ten young men that bore Joab's armor compassed about and smote Absalom, and slew him.

World English Bible
Ten young men who bore Joab's armor surrounded and struck Absalom, and killed him.

Young's Literal Translation
And they go round -- ten youths bearing weapons of Joab -- and smite Absalom, and put him to death.

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

18:9-18 Let young people look upon Absalom, hanging on a tree, accursed, forsaken of heaven and earth; there let them read the Lord's abhorrence of rebellion against parents. Nothing can preserve men from misery and contempt, but heavenly wisdom and the grace of God.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And ten young men that bare Joab's armour,.... That waited upon him in the battle, to carry his armour, and supply him with it as he should have occasion; these, by his orders:

compassed about, and smote Absalom, and slew him; they enclosed him that none might rescue him, and smote him with their spears or swords, or whatsoever armour they had, until it was a clear case that he was really dead. Joab in this disobeyed the king's order, but provided for the good of the nation, and the safety of the king. The Jews observe (m), that measure for measure was given to Absalom; he was proud of his hair, 2 Samuel 14:25, and therefore was hanged by it, 2 Samuel 18:9; he lay with ten concubines of his father, 2 Samuel 16:21, and therefore was smitten with ten lances or spears by ten young men; and he stole three hearts, the heart of his father, the heart of the sanhedrim, and the heart of the men of Israel, and therefore three darts were fixed in him, 2 Samuel 18:14.

(m) Misn. Sotah, c. 1. sect. 8.

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Absalom Killed
…14Then said Joab, I may not tarry thus with you. And he took three darts in his hand, and thrust them through the heart of Absalom, while he was yet alive in the middle of the oak. 15And ten young men that bore Joab's armor compassed about and smote Absalom, and slew him. 16And Joab blew the trumpet, and the people returned from pursuing after Israel: for Joab held back the people. …

2 Samuel 18:14 Joab 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.
2 Samuel 18:16 Then Joab sounded the trumpet, and the troops stopped pursuing Israel, for Joab halted them.