2 Samuel 18:10

Then a certain one saw this and reported it to Joab, saying, “I saw Absalom hanging from an oak.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

In The King James Version

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

In Context

9Then it happened that Absalom, riding on a mule, met the servants of David. And when the mule had entered under a thick and large oak tree, his head became trapped in the oak. And while he was suspended between heaven and earth, the mule on which he had been sitting continued on.

11And Joab said to the man who had reported it to him, “If you saw him, why did you not stab him to the ground, and I would have given you ten shekels of silver and a belt?”

Read all of 2 Samuel 18

Cross References

Job 31:3Is not destruction held for the wicked and repudiation kept for those who work injustice?

Matthew Henry on 2 Samuel 18:10-19

The Death of Absalom. ( b. c. 1023.) 9 And Absalom met the servants of David. And Absalom rode upon 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. 10 And a certain man saw it, and told Joab, and said, Behold, I saw Absalom hanged in an oak. 11 And Joab said unto the man that told him, And, behold, thou sawest him, and why didst thou not smite him there to the… Read the whole commentary →

This Verse In Other Editions

Study 2 Samuel 18:10