Absalom was the third son of David, born to Maacah, the daughter of Talmai, the king of Geshur.
2 Samuel 3:3and the fourth, Adonijah the son of Haggith; and the fifth, Shephatiah the son of Abital;
2 Samuel 14:25When he cut the hair of his head (now it was at every year’s end that he cut it; because it was heavy on him, therefore he cut it); he weighed the hair of his head at two hundred shekels, after the king’s weight.
누이 다말이 있었는데, 그녀를 강간한 형 암논을 죽이게 된다.
2 Samuel 13:28The servants of Absalom) did to Amnon as Absalom had commanded. Then all the king’s sons arose, and every man got up on his mule, and fled.2 Samuel 13:29While they were on the way, the news came to David, saying, “Absalom has slain all the king’s sons, and there is not one of them left!”
이후, 아버지 다윗을 두려워하여 외가댁인 그술로 피해 3년동안 있었다. 그러다 요압(다윗의 장군)의 주선으로 돌아오기는 하였으나,
2 Samuel 13:37So Absalom fled, and went to Geshur, and was there three years.
2 Samuel 14:1Joab sent to Tekoa, and brought a wise woman from there, and said to her, “Please act like a mourner, and put on mourning clothing, please, and don’t anoint yourself with oil, but be as a woman who has mourned a long time for the dead.2 Samuel 14:2Go in to the king, and speak like this to him.” So Joab put the words in her mouth.2 Samuel 14:3When the woman of Tekoa spoke to the king, she fell on her face to the ground, showed respect, and said, “Help, O king!”
2 Samuel 14:24Now in all Israel there was no one to be so much praised as Absalom for his beauty. From the sole of his foot even to the crown of his head there was no defect in him.2 Samuel 14:25When he cut the hair of his head (now it was at every year’s end that he cut it; because it was heavy on him, therefore he cut it); he weighed the hair of his head at two hundred shekels, after the king’s weight.2 Samuel 14:26Three sons were born to Absalom, and one daughter, whose name was Tamar. She was a woman with a beautiful face.2 Samuel 14:27Absalom lived two full years in Jerusalem, and he didn’t see the king’s face.2 Samuel 14:28Then Absalom) sent for Joab, to send him to the king, but he would not come to him. Then he sent again a second time, but he would not come.
2 Samuel 15:7For your servant vowed a vow while I stayed at Geshur in Syria, saying, ‘If Yahweh shall indeed bring me again to Jerusalem, then I will serve Yahweh.’ ”2 Samuel 15:8The king said to him, “Go in peace.” So he arose, and went to Hebron.2 Samuel 15:9But Absalom) sent spies throughout all the tribes of Israel, saying, “As soon as you hear the sound of the trumpet, then you shall say, ‘Absalom is king in Hebron!’ ”2 Samuel 15:10Two hundred men went with Absalom) out of Jerusalem, who were invited, and went in their simplicity; and they didn’t know anything.2 Samuel 15:11Absalom) sent for Ahithophel the Gilonite, David’s counselor, from his city, even from Giloh, while he was offering the sacrifices. The conspiracy was strong; for the people increased continually with Absalom.2 Samuel 15:12A messenger came to David, saying, “The hearts of the men of Israel are after Absalom.”
2 Samuel 18:6The people of Israel were struck there before David’s servants, and there was a great slaughter there that day of twenty thousand men.2 Samuel 18:7For the battle was there spread over the surface of all the country, and the forest devoured more people that day than the sword devoured.2 Samuel 18:8Absalom)) happened to meet David’s servants. Absalom was riding on his mule, and the mule went under the thick boughs of a great oak, and his head caught hold of the oak, and he was taken up between the sky and earth; and the mule that was under him went on.2 Samuel 18:9A certain man saw it, and told Joab, and said, “Behold, I saw Absalom hanging in an oak.”2 Samuel 18:10Joab said to the man who told him, “Behold, you saw it, and why didn’t you strike him there to the ground? I would have given you ten pieces of silver, and a sash.”2 Samuel 18:11The man said to Joab, “Though I should receive a thousand pieces of silver in my hand, I still wouldn’t stretch out my hand against the king’s son; for in our hearing the king commanded you and Abishai and Ittai, saying, ‘Beware that no one touch the young man Absalom.’2 Samuel 18:12Otherwise if I had dealt falsely against his life (and there is no matter hidden from the king), then you yourself would have set yourself against me.”2 Samuel 18:13Then 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.2 Samuel 18:14Ten young men who bore Joab’s armor surrounded and struck Absalom, and killed him.2 Samuel 18:15Joab blew the trumpet, and the people returned from pursuing after Israel; for Joab held the people back.