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2 Samuel 18:10

2 Samuel chapter 18 · verse 10 in three public-domain English translations with scriptural context

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

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

KJV

King James Version · 1611

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

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

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

Context

v.9And Absalom chanced to meet the servants of David. And Absalom was riding upon his 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 heaven and earth; and the mule that was under him went on.

v.10This passage

v.11And Joab said unto the man that told him, And, behold, thou sawest it, and why didst thou not smite him there to the ground? and I would have given thee ten pieces of silver, and a girdle.