11 And Joab said to the man who had reported it to him, 'If you saw him, why did you not stab him to the ground, and I would have given you ten shekels of silver and a belt?'
12 And he said to Joab: 'Even if you weighed out to my hands one thousand silver coins, I would never lay my hands on the son of the king. For in our hearing the king ordered you and Abishai and Ittai, saying, 'Keep for me the boy Absalom.'
13 Then too, if I had acted with such audacity, against my own life, this would never have been able to be hidden from the king. And would you then have stood by my side?'
14 And Joab said, 'It will not be as you wish. Instead, I will be assailing him in your sight.' Then he took three lances in his hand, and he fixed them in the heart of Absalom. And while he was still clinging to life upon the oak,
15 ten young men, armor bearers of Joab, ran up, and striking him, they killed him.
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