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


In Context

7 There the army of Israel was defeated by David's men, and the casualties that day were great-twenty thousand men.

8 The battle spread out over the whole countryside, and the forest claimed more lives that day than the sword.

9 Now Absalom happened to meet David's men. He was riding his mule, and as the mule went under the thick branches of a large oak, Absalom's head got caught in the tree. He was left hanging in midair, while the mule he was riding kept on going.

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

11 Joab said to the man who had told him this, "What! You saw him? Why didn't you strike him to the ground right there? Then I would have had to give you ten shekels of silver and a warrior's belt."

12 But the man replied, "Even if a thousand shekels were weighed out into my hands, I would not lift my hand against the king's son. In our hearing the king commanded you and Abishai and Ittai, 'Protect the young man Absalom for my sake. '

2nd Samuel 18:10 in Other Translations

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 Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

18:10And one saw this and told Joab, saying: I saw Absalom hanging upon 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.