14. Then Joab said, “I’m not going to wait like this with you.” He took three darts in his hand, and thrust them through the heart of Absalom, while he was yet alive in the middle of the oak.
15. Ten young men who bore Joab’s armor surrounded and struck Absalom, and killed him.
16. Joab blew the shofar, and the people returned from pursuing after Israel; for Joab held the people back.
17. They took Absalom and cast him into the great pit in the forest, and raised over him a very great heap of stones. Then all Israel fled, each to his own tent.
18. Now Absalom in his lifetime had taken and reared up for himself the pillar which is in the king’s valley, for he said, “I have no son to keep my name in memory.” He called the pillar after his own name. It is called Absalom’s monument, to this day.
19. Then Ahimaaz the son of Zadok said, “Let me now run, and carry the king news, how the Lord has avenged him of his enemies.”
20. Joab said to him, “You must not be the bearer of news today, but you must carry news another day. But today you must carry no news, because the king’s son is dead.”