The Bible Verse By Verse Continued...

[phil36]

[h=1]2 Samuel 17:25English Standard Version (ESV)[/h][FONT=&quot]25 Now Absalom had set Amasa over the army instead of Joab. Amasa was the son of a man named Ithra the Ishmaelite,[a] who had married Abigal the daughter of Nahash, sister of Zeruiah, Joab's mother.[/FONT]

 

[Hizikyah]

2 Samuel 17:26, "And Yisra’yl and Aḇshalom encamped in the land of Gil‛aḏ."

 

[willfollowsGod]

2 Samuel 17:27
New International Version (NIV)

When David came to Mahanaim, Shobi son of Nahash from Rabbah of the Ammonites, and Makir son of Ammiel from Lo Debar, and Barzillai the Gileadite from Rogelim

 

[GracethroughfaithinChrist]

2 Samuel 17:28 (HCSB)
brought beds, basins, and pottery items. They also brought wheat, barley, flour, roasted grain, beans, lentils,

 

[Hizikyah]

2 Samuel 17:29, "and honey and curds, and sheep and cheese of the herd, for Dawiḏ and the people who were with him to eat. For they said, “The people are hungry and weary and thirsty in the wilderness.”"

 

[GracethroughfaithinChrist]

2 Samuel 18:1 (KJV)
And David numbered the people that were with him, and set captains of thousands and captains of hundreds over them.

 

[phil36]

[h=1]2 Samuel 18:2New International Version - UK (NIVUK)[/h][FONT=&quot]2 David sent out his troops, a third under the command of Joab, a third under Joab’s brother Abishai son of Zeruiah, and a third under Ittai the Gittite. The king told the troops, ‘I myself will surely march out with you.’[/FONT]

 

[Hizikyah]

2 Samuel 18:3, "But the people answered, “Do not go out, for if we flee away, they would not set heart upon us. Even if half of us die, they would not set heart upon us. For now, ten thousand are like us. Therefore, it is better for you to support us from the city.”"

 

[GracethroughfaithinChrist]

2 Samuel 18:4 (KJV)
And the king said unto them, What seemeth you best I will do. And the king stood by the gate side, and all the people came out by hundreds and by thousands.

 

[Hizikyah]

2 Samuel 18:5, "And the sovereign ordered Yo’aḇ, and Aḇishai and Ittai, saying, “Be gentle with the young man Aḇshalom for my sake.” And all the people heard when the sovereign gave all the commanders orders concerning Aḇshalom."

 

[GracethroughfaithinChrist]

2 Samuel 18:6 (KJV)
So the people went out into the field against Israel: and the battle was in the wood of Ephraim;

 

[Hizikyah]

2 Samuel 18:7, "and the people of Yisra’yl were smitten there before the servants of Dawiḏ. And the slaughter there that day was great – twenty thousand."

 

[GracethroughfaithinChrist]

2 Samuel 18:8 (HCSB)
The battle spread over the entire region, and that day the forest claimed more people than the sword.

 

[GracethroughfaithinChrist]

2 Samuel 18:9 (KJV)
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.

 

[GracethroughfaithinChrist]

2 Samuel 18:10 (KJV)
And a certain man saw it, and told Joab, and said, Behold, I saw Absalom hanged in an oak.

 

[GracethroughfaithinChrist]

2 Samuel 18:11 (HCSB)
You just saw him!" Joab exclaimed. "Why didn't you strike him to the ground right there? I would have given you 10 silver pieces and a belt!"

 

[GracethroughfaithinChrist]

2 Samuel 18:12 (KJV)
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.

 

[Hizikyah]

2 Samuel 18:12, "But the man answered Yo’aḇ, “Though I were to receive a thousand pieces of silver in my hand, I would not raise my hand against the son of the sovereign. Because in our hearing the sovereign commanded you and Aḇishai and Ittai, saying, ‘Take heed, you who go against the youth, against Aḇshalom!"

 

[willfollowsGod]

2 Samuel 18:13
New International Version (NIV)

And if I had put my life in jeopardy[e]—and nothing is hidden from the king—you would have kept your distance from me.”

e. Or Otherwise, if I had acted treacherously toward him

 

[Hizikyah]

2 Samuel 18:14, "And Yo’aḇ said, “Let me not waste time here with you.” And he took three spears in his hand and thrust them through Aḇshalom’s heart, while he was still alive in the midst of the terebinth tree."