14 Joab said, "I won’t waste time like this with you!" He took three sticks in his hand and drove them into Absalom’s chest while he was still alive in the oak.
15 Then ten young armor-bearers of Joab surrounded Absalom, struck him, and killed him.
16 Then Joab sounded the trumpet, and the troops stopped chasing the Israelites, because Joab held them back.
17 They took Absalom and threw him into a big pit in the forest. They piled over him a huge heap of stones. Meanwhile, all the Israelites fled to their homes.
18 When he was alive, Absalom had raised a large pillar for himself in the King’s Valley because he said, "I have no son to carry on the memory of my name." He named the pillar after himself. It is called Absalom’s Monument to this day.
19 Then Zadok’s son Ahimaaz said, "Please let me run and take the news to the king that the Lord has vindicated him against his enemies’ power."
20 Joab said to him, "You aren’t the one to bring the news today. You can bring news on another day, but not today, because the king’s son is dead."