2 Samuel 18:11

New International Version

Joab said to the man who had told him this, “What! You saw him? Why didn’t you strike him to the ground right there? Then I would have had to give you ten shekels of silver and a warrior’s belt.”

Cross References

2 Samuel 18:10

When one of the men saw what had happened, he told Joab, “I just saw Absalom hanging in an oak tree.”

2 Samuel 18:12

But the man replied, “Even if a thousand shekels were weighed out into my hands, I would not lay a hand on the king’s son. In our hearing the king commanded you and Abishai and Ittai, ‘Protect the young man Absalom for my sake.’

2 Samuel 19:13

And say to Amasa, ‘Are you not my own flesh and blood? May God deal with me, be it ever so severely, if you are not the commander of my army for life in place of Joab.’ ”

Psalm 143:3

The enemy pursues me, he crushes me to the ground; he makes me dwell in the darkness like those long dead.

Proverbs 1:19

Such are the paths of all who go after ill-gotten gain; it takes away the life of those who get it.