¹⁴ Joab^(A) said, “I’m not going to wait like this for you.” So he took three javelins in his hand and plunged them into Absalom’s heart while Absalom was still alive in the oak tree.

³ While people are saying, “Peace and safety,”^(A) destruction will come on them suddenly,^(B) as labor pains on a pregnant woman, and they will not escape.^(C)

⁴⁰ For as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of a huge fish,^(A) so the Son of Man^(B) will be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.^(C)

⁵ The king commanded Joab, Abishai and Ittai, “Be gentle with the young man Absalom for my sake.” And all the troops heard the king giving orders concerning Absalom to each of the commanders.

³⁰ Then he said to his servants, “Look, Joab’s field is next to mine, and he has barley^(A) there. Go and set it on fire.” So Absalom’s servants set the field on fire.

Then the land had peace^(D) forty years.

²¹ But Jael,^(A) Heber’s wife, picked up a tent peg and a hammer and went quietly to him while he lay fast asleep,^(B) exhausted. She drove the peg through his temple into the ground, and he died.^(C)