2 Samuel 18:10
◄  2 Samuel 18:10  ►
New International Version (©2011)
When one of the men saw what had happened, he told Joab, "I just saw Absalom hanging in an oak tree."

New Living Translation (©2007)
One of David's men saw what had happened and told Joab, "I saw Absalom dangling from a great tree."

English Standard Version (©2001)
And a certain man saw it and told Joab, “Behold, I saw Absalom hanging in an oak.”

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
When a certain man saw it, he told Joab and said, "Behold, I saw Absalom hanging in an oak."

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
And a certain man saw it, and told Joab, and said, Behold, I saw Absalom hanged in an oak.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
One of the men saw him and informed Joab. He said, "I just saw Absalom hanging in an oak tree!""

International Standard Version (©2012)
When one of the soldiers saw what had happened, he told Joab, "I saw Absalom stuck in an oak tree!"

NET Bible (©2006)
When one of the men saw this, he reported it to Joab saying, "I saw Absalom hanging in an oak tree.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
A man who saw this told Joab, "I saw Absalom hanging in a tree."

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
And a certain man saw it, and told Joab, and said, Behold, I saw Absalom hanging in an oak.

American King James Version
And a certain man saw it, and told Joab, and said, Behold, I saw Absalom hanged in an oak.

American Standard Version
And a certain man saw it, and told Joab, and said, Behold, I saw Absalom hanging in an oak.

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

Darby Bible Translation
And a man saw it, and told Joab, and said, Behold, I saw Absalom hanging in a terebinth.

English Revised Version
And a certain man saw it, and told Joab, and said, Behold, I saw Absalom hanging in an oak.

Webster's Bible Translation
And a certain man saw it, and told Joab, and said, Behold, I saw Absalom hanging in an oak.

World English Bible
A certain man saw it, and told Joab, and said, "Behold, I saw Absalom hanging in an oak."

Young's Literal Translation
And one man seeth, and declareth to Joab, and saith, 'Lo, I saw Absalom hanged in an oak.'

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

18:9-18 Let young people look upon Absalom, hanging on a tree, accursed, forsaken of heaven and earth; there let them read the Lord's abhorrence of rebellion against parents. Nothing can preserve men from misery and contempt, but heavenly wisdom and the grace of God.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And a certain man saw it,.... Saw him in the above posture, one of David's soldiers:

and told Joab, and said, behold, I saw Absalom hanged in an oak; caught by the neck in one, out of which he could not disengage himself, but there he hung, though alive.

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Absalom Killed
…9And Absalom met the servants of David. And Absalom rode on a 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 heaven and the earth; and the mule that was under him went away. 10And a certain man saw it, and told Joab, and said, Behold, I saw Absalom hanged in an oak. 11And Joab said to the man that told him, And, behold, you saw him, and why did you not smite him there to the ground? and I would have given you ten shekels of silver, and a girdle. …

Genesis 12:6 Abram traveled through the land as far as the site of the great tree of Moreh at Shechem. At that time the Canaanites were in the land.
2 Samuel 18:9 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 hair got caught in the tree. He was left hanging in midair, while the mule he was riding kept on going.
2 Samuel 18:11 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."