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Killing Absalom was against David's explicit command, "Beware that none touch the young man Absalom". Joab injured Absalom with three darts through the heart and Absalom was subsequently killed by ten of Joab's armor-bearers. [18] When David heard that Absalom was killed, although not how he was killed, he greatly sorrowed.
The forces of Absalom were thus routed by the royal forces of David. Death of Absalom, 1860 woodcut by Julius Schnorr von Karolsfeld. Absalom himself fled. As he was riding through the woods on his mule, he was caught by the long locks of his hair under the spreading branches of a large tree.
Ignoring David's command to deal gently with Absalom, Joab himself thrust three spears at once through Absalom's heart and left his ten armorbearers beating the prince to death (verse 15). [17] As the rebels' leader was dead, Joab suspended hostilities, as this was not a war between the people but more on an individual. [ 17 ]
Absalom, the third son, born to Maacah, the daughter of Talmai, king of Geshur. He was killed by Joab (1 Chronicles 3:1-2) after he mounted a rebellion against his aging father David. Adonijah, the fourth son of King David from Haggith (2 Samuel 3:4). He attempted to usurp the throne during the life of David (1 Kings 1:11ff).
However, when a man reported that Absalom had been found alive and caught in a tree, Joab and his men killed him (2 Samuel 18:1–33). Hearing of David's grief over the reported death of Absalom, Joab confronted and admonished David. The king followed Joab's advice to make a public appearance to encourage his troops (2 Samuel 19:1–8).
David's son, Amnon, persuades his half-sister, Tamar to feed him at his bedside and rapes her. His brother, Absalom, holds a party and invites all the princes, and Amnon is killed by Absalom's servants, under the order of Absalom. PEOPLE: Absalom - David - Tamar - Amnon - Jonadab - Talmai. PLACES: Baal-hazor - Geshur
The story of Absalom's rebellion can be observed as five consecutive episodes: [15] A. David's flight from Jerusalem (15:13–16:14) B. The victorious Absalom and his counselors (16:15–17:14) C. David reaches Mahanaim (17:15–29) B'. The rebellion is crushed and Absalom is executed (18:1–19:8abc) A'. David's reentry into Jerusalem (19:8d ...
[16] The oath placed David in jeopardy because he had condemned himself for his treatment of Absalom as the woman argued (verse 14): all would die, and Amnon's death cannot be changed by keeping Absalom in banishment. [16] The parallel of the parable devised by Joab to be spoken by the woman to the story of Cain and Abel can be summarized below ...