2 Samuel 18:11

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

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.”

Cross References

2 Samuel 18:10

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

2 Samuel 18:12

But the man said to Joab, “Even if I felt in my hand the weight of a thousand pieces of silver, I would not raise my hand against the king’s son, for in our hearing the king commanded you and Abishai and Ittai, saying, ‘For my sake protect the young man Absalom!’

2 Samuel 19:13

And say to Amasa, ‘Are you not my bone and my flesh? So may God do to me and more, if you are not the commander of my army from now on, in place of Joab.’ ”

Psalm 143:3

For the enemy has pursued me, crushing my life to the ground, making me sit in darkness like those long dead.

Proverbs 1:19

Such is the end of all who are greedy for gain; it takes away the life of its possessors.