2 Samuel 18:11

New American Bible - revised edition

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.”

Cross References

2 Samuel 18:10

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

2 Samuel 18:12

But the man replied to Joab: “Even if I already held a thousand pieces of silver in my two hands, I would not lay a hand on the king’s son, for in our hearing the king gave you and Abishai and Ittai a command: ‘Protect the youth Absalom for my sake.’

2 Samuel 19:13

You are my brothers, you are my bone and flesh. Why should you be last to restore the king?’

Psalm 143:3

The enemy has pursued my soul; he has crushed my life to the ground. He has made me dwell in darkness like those long dead.

Proverbs 1:19

This is the way of everyone greedy for loot: it takes away their lives.