◄ 2 Samuel 18:10 ►
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Good News Translation
One of David's men saw him and reported to Joab, "Sir, I saw Absalom hanging in an oak tree!"

New Revised Standard Version
A man saw it, and told Joab, “I saw Absalom hanging in an oak.”

Contemporary English Version
and one of them went and told Joab, "I saw Absalom hanging in a tree!"

New American Bible
Someone saw this and reported to Joab, “I saw Absalom hanging from an oak tree.”

Douay-Rheims Bible
And one saw this and told Joab, saying: I saw Absalom hanging upon an oak.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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

Context
Absalom Killed
…9And it happened that Absalom met the 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 the earth, the mule on which he rode passed on. 10And one saw this and told Joab, saying: I saw Absalom hanging upon an oak.11And 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 a belt?…
Cross References
Genesis 12:6
Abram passed through the country unto the place of Sichem, as far as the noble vale: now the Chanaanite was at that time in the land.

2 Samuel 18:9
And it happened that Absalom met the 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 the earth, the mule on which he rode passed on.

2 Samuel 18:11
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 a belt?

2 Samuel 18:9
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