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13 Otherwise, I would have betrayed his soul—and nothing stays hidden from the king—and you yourself would have stood aloof.”

14 “I won’t wait for you!” Joab said. So he took three darts in his hand and thrust them through Absalom’s heart while he was yet alive in the midst of the oak. 15 Then ten young men who were Joab’s armor-bearers surrounded Absalom, struck and finished him off.

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