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title: "2 Samuel 18:9-17 KJV - \"And Absalom met the servants of David....\" | Real Bible Believers"
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## 2 Samuel 18:9-17 in Context (Verses 6–20 KJV)
 
 [6 ](/kjv/2-samuel/18/6) ¶ So the people went out into the field against Israel: and the battle was in the wood of Ephraim;
 
 [7 ](/kjv/2-samuel/18/7) Where the people of Israel were slain before the servants of David, and there was there a great slaughter that day of twenty thousand *men*.
 
 [8 ](/kjv/2-samuel/18/8) For the battle was there scattered over the face of all the country: and the wood devoured more people that day than the sword devoured.*
 
 [9 ](/kjv/2-samuel/18/9) ¶ And Absalom met the servants of David. And Absalom rode upon a mule, and the mule went under the thick boughs of a great oak, and his head caught hold of the oak, and he was taken up between the heaven and the earth; and the mule that *was* under him went away.
 
 [10 ](/kjv/2-samuel/18/10) And a certain man saw *it*, and told Joab, and said, Behold, I saw Absalom hanged in an oak.
 
 [11 ](/kjv/2-samuel/18/11) And Joab said unto the man that told him, And, behold, thou sawest *him*, and why didst thou not smite him there to the ground? and I would have given thee ten *shekels* of silver, and a girdle.
 
 [12 ](/kjv/2-samuel/18/12) And the man said unto Joab, Though I should receive a thousand *shekels* of silver in mine hand, *yet* would I not put forth mine hand against the king’s son: for in our hearing the king charged thee and Abishai and Ittai, saying, Beware that none *touch* the young man Absalom.**
 
 [13 ](/kjv/2-samuel/18/13) Otherwise I should have wrought falsehood against mine own life: for there is no matter hid from the king, and thou thyself wouldest have set thyself against *me*.
 
 [14 ](/kjv/2-samuel/18/14) Then said Joab, I may not tarry thus with thee. And he took three darts in his hand, and thrust them through the heart of Absalom, while he *was* yet alive in the midst of the oak.**
 
 [15 ](/kjv/2-samuel/18/15) And ten young men that bare Joab’s armour compassed about and smote Absalom, and slew him.
 
 [16 ](/kjv/2-samuel/18/16) And Joab blew the trumpet, and the people returned from pursuing after Israel: for Joab held back the people.
 
 [17 ](/kjv/2-samuel/18/17) And they took Absalom, and cast him into a great pit in the wood, and laid a very great heap of stones upon him: and all Israel fled every one to his tent.
 
 [18 ](/kjv/2-samuel/18/18) ¶ Now Absalom in his lifetime had taken and reared up for himself a pillar, which *is* in the king’s dale: for he said, I have no son to keep my name in remembrance: and he called the pillar after his own name: and it is called unto this day, Absalom’s place.
 
 [19 ](/kjv/2-samuel/18/19) ¶ Then said Ahimaaz the son of Zadok, Let me now run, and bear the king tidings, how that the LORD hath avenged him of his enemies.*
 
 [20 ](/kjv/2-samuel/18/20) And Joab said unto him, Thou shalt not bear tidings this day, but thou shalt bear tidings another day: but this day thou shalt bear no tidings, because the king’s son is dead.*
 
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