2 Samuel 18:10

New American Bible - revised edition

Someone saw this and reported to Joab, “I saw Absalom hanging from an oak tree.”

Cross References

Genesis 12:6

Abram passed through the land as far as the sacred place at Shechem, by the oak of Moreh. The Canaanites were then in the land.

2 Samuel 18:11

Joab said to the man who told him this: “If you saw him, why did you not strike him to the ground on the spot? Then it would have been my duty to give you fifty pieces of silver and a belt.”

2 Samuel 18:9

Absalom unexpectedly came up against David’s servants. He was mounted on a mule, and, as the mule passed under the branches of a large oak tree, his hair caught fast in the tree. He hung between heaven and earth while the mule under him kept going.

2 Samuel 21:6

let seven men from among his descendants be given to us, that we may execute them before the Lord in Gibeon, on the Lord’s mountain.” The king replied, “I will give them up.”

Job 31:3

Is it not calamity for the unrighteous, and woe for evildoers?

Galatians 3:13

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