2 Samuel 18:10
Berean Standard Bible (BSB)
When one of the men saw this, he told Joab, “I just saw Absalom hanging in an oak tree!”
In context
8 The battle spread over the whole countryside, and that day the forest devoured more people than the sword.
9 Now Absalom was riding on his mule when he met the servants of David, and as the mule went under the thick branches of a large oak, Absalom’s head was caught fast in the tree. The mule under him kept going, so that he was suspended in midair.
10 When one of the men saw this, he told Joab, “I just saw Absalom hanging in an oak tree!”
11 “You just saw him!” Joab exclaimed. “Why did you not strike him to the ground right there? I would have given you ten shekels of silver and a warrior’s belt!”
12 The man replied, “Even if a thousand shekels of silver were weighed out into my hands, I would not raise my hand against the son of the king. For we heard the king command you and Abishai and Ittai, ‘Protect the young man Absalom for my sake.’
2 Samuel 18:10 in every translation
- BSB Berean Standard Bible
- When one of the men saw this, he told Joab, “I just saw Absalom hanging in an oak tree!”
- KJV King James Version
- And a certain man saw it, and told Joab, and said, Behold, I saw Absalom hanged in an oak.
- WEB World English Bible
- A certain man saw it, and told Joab, and said, “Behold, I saw Absalom hanging in an oak.”
- ASV American Standard Version
- And a certain man saw it, and told Joab, and said, Behold, I saw Absalom hanging in an oak.
- YLT Young's Literal Translation
- And one man seeth, and declareth to Joab, and saith, 'Lo, I saw Absalom hanged in an oak.'
- DBY Darby Translation
- And a man saw it, and told Joab, and said, Behold, I saw Absalom hanging in a terebinth.
- WBS Webster Bible
- And a certain man saw it , and told Joab, and said, Behold, I saw Absalom hanging in an oak.