2 Samuel 18:10 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹⁰ A man saw it and told Joab, “I saw Absalom hanging in an oak.”

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁰ And a certain man saw it, and told Joab, and said, Behold, I saw Absalom hanged in an oak.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁰ A certain man saw it and told Joab, Behold, I saw Absalom hanging in an oak.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁰ And a certain man saw it, and told Joab, and said, Behold, I saw Absalom hanging in an oak.

Common English Bible

¹⁰ One of the men saw this and reported to Joab, “I just saw Absalom hanging from an oak tree.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁰ Then a certain one saw this and reported it to Joab, saying, "I saw Absalom hanging from an oak."

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁰ And one saw this and told Joab, saying: I saw Absalom hanging upon an oak.

2 Samuel 18:10 Cross References

Genesis 12:6

Abram passed through the land to the place at Shechem, to the oak of Moreh. At that time the Canaanites were in the land.

2 Samuel 18:11

Joab said to the man who told him, “What, you saw him! Why then did you not strike him there to the ground? I would have been glad to give you ten pieces of silver and a belt.”

2 Samuel 18:9

Absalom happened to meet the servants of David. Absalom was riding on his mule, and the mule went under the thick branches of a great oak. His head caught fast in the oak, and he was left hanging between heaven and earth, while the mule that was under him went on.

2 Samuel 21:6

let seven of his sons be handed over to us, and we will impale them before the Lord at Gibeon on the mountain of the Lord.” The king said, “I will hand them over.”

Job 31:3

Does not calamity befall the unrighteous and disaster the workers of iniquity?

Galatians 3:13

Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us—for it is written, “Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree”—