2 Samuel 18:15
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Ten young men, armourbearers of Joab, ran up, and striking him slew him.

Context
Absalom Killed
14And Joab said: Not as thou wilt, but I will set upon him in thy sight. So he took three lances in his hand, and thrust them into the heart of Absalom: and whilst he yet panted for life, sticking on the oak, 15Ten young men, armourbearers of Joab, ran up, and striking him slew him.16And Joab sounded the trumpet, and kept back the people from pursuing after Israel in their flight, being willing to spare the multitude.…
Cross References
2 Samuel 18:14
And Joab said: Not as thou wilt, but I will set upon him in thy sight. So he took three lances in his hand, and thrust them into the heart of Absalom: and whilst he yet panted for life, sticking on the oak,

2 Samuel 18:16
And Joab sounded the trumpet, and kept back the people from pursuing after Israel in their flight, being willing to spare the multitude.

Lexicon
And ten
עֲשָׂרָ֣ה (‘ă·śā·rāh)
Number - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 6235: Ten

young men
נְעָרִ֔ים (nə·‘ā·rîm)
Noun - masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 5288: A boy, lad, youth, retainer

who carried
נֹשְׂאֵ֖י (nō·śə·’ê)
Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine plural construct
Strong's Hebrew 5375: To lift, carry, take

Joab's
יוֹאָ֑ב (yō·w·’āḇ)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 3097: Joab -- 'the LORD is father', three Israelites

armor
כְּלֵ֣י (kə·lê)
Noun - masculine plural construct
Strong's Hebrew 3627: Something prepared, any apparatus

surrounded
וַיָּסֹ֙בּוּ֙ (way·yā·sōb·bū)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 5437: To turn about, go around, surround

Absalom,
אַבְשָׁל֖וֹם (’aḇ·šā·lō·wm)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 53: Absalom -- 'my father is peace', two Israelites

struck
וַיַּכּ֥וּ (way·yak·kū)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Hifil - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 5221: To strike

him,
אֶת־ (’eṯ-)
Direct object marker
Strong's Hebrew 853: Untranslatable mark of the accusative case

and killed him.
וַיְמִיתֻֽהוּ׃ (way·mî·ṯu·hū)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Hifil - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine plural | third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 4191: To die, to kill


Additional Translations
And ten young men who carried Joab's armor surrounded Absalom, struck him, and killed him.And ten young men that bore Joab's armor compassed about and smote Absalom, and slew him.

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

And ten young men that bore Joab's armour compassed Abessalom, and smote him and slew him.

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

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

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

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

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