American King James Version
"And a certain man saw it, and told Joab, and said, Behold, I saw Absalom hanged in an oak. "
— 2 Samuel 18:10, American King James Version
“And a certain man saw it, and told Joab, and said, Behold, I saw Absalom hanged in an oak.”
“And a certain man saw it, and told Joab, and said, Behold, I saw Absalom hanging in an oak. ”
“A certain man saw it, and told Joab, and said, "Behold, I saw Absalom hanging in an oak."”
“When one of the men saw this, he reported it to Joab saying,“I saw Absalom hanging in an oak tree.””
“And one saw this and told Joab, saying: I saw Absalom hanging upon an oak.”
“And a certain man saw it and said to Joab, I saw Absalom hanging in a tree.”
“And a certain man saw it, and told Joab, and said, Behold, I saw Absalom hanged in an oak.”
Where the people of Israel were slain before the servants of David, and there was there a great slaughter that day of twenty thousand men.
For the battle was there scattered over the face of all the country: and the wood devoured more people that day than the sword devoured. ¶
And 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.
And a certain man saw it, and told Joab, and said, Behold, I saw Absalom hanged in an oak.
And 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.
And the man said to Joab, Though I should receive a thousand shekels of silver in my hand, yet would I not put forth my hand against the king’s son: for in our hearing the king charged you and Abishai and Ittai, saying, Beware that none touch the young man Absalom.
Otherwise I should have worked falsehood against my own life: for there is no matter hid from the king, and you yourself would have set yourself against me.