10And one saw this and told Joab, saying: I saw Absalom hanging upon an oak.


In Context

7 And the people of Israel were defeated there by David's army, and a great slaughter was made that day of twenty thousand men.

8 And the battle there was scattered over the face of all the country, and there were many more of the people whom the forest consumed, than whom the sword devoured that day.

9 And it happened that Absalom met he servants of David, riding on a mule: and as the mule went under a thick and large oak, his head stuck in the oak: and while he hung between the heaven and he earth, the mule on which he rode passed on.

10 And one saw this and told Joab, saying: I saw Absalom hanging upon an oak.

11 And Joab said to the man that told him: If thou sawest him, why didst thou not stab him to the ground, and I would have given thee ten sicles of silver, and belt?

12 And he said to Joab: If thou wouldst have paid down in my hands a thousand pieces of silver, I would not lay my hands upon the king's son: for in our hearing he king charged thee, and Abisai, and Ethai, saying: Save me the boy Absalom.

2 Samuel 18:10 in Other Translations

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

18:10When one of the men saw this, he told Joab, "I just saw Absalom hanging in an oak tree."

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

18:10And a certain man saw it, and told Joab, and said, Behold, I saw Absalom hanged in an oak.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

18:10And a certain man saw it, and told Joab, and said, Behold, I saw Absalom hanging in an oak.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

18:10And a man saw it, and told Joab, and said, Behold, I saw Absalom hanging in a terebinth.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

18:10And a certain man saw it, and told Joab, and said, Behold, I saw Absalom hanging in an oak.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

18:10And a certain man saw it, and told Joab, and said, Behold, I saw Absalom hanging in an oak.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

18:10A certain man saw it, and told Joab, and said, |Behold, I saw Absalom hanging in an oak.|

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

18:10And one man seeth, and declareth to Joab, and saith, 'Lo, I saw Absalom hanged in an oak.'

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

18:10And a certain man saw it, and told Joab, and said, Behold, I saw Absalom hanged in an oak.