2 Samuel 18:11

Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

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 girdle.”

Cross References

2 Samuel 18:10

And a certain man saw it, and told Joab, “Behold, 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 put forth my hand against the king's son; for in our hearing the king commanded you and Abishai and Ittai, ‘For my sake protect the young man Absalom.’

2 Samuel 19:13

And say to Amasa, ‘Are you not my bone and my flesh? God do so to me and more also, if you are not commander of my army henceforth in place of Joab.’ ”

Psalm 143:3

For the enemy has pursued me; he has crushed my life to the ground; he has made me sit in darkness like those long dead.

Proverbs 1:19

Such are the ways of all who get gain by violence; it takes away the life of its possessors.