2 Samuel 18:11

Tree of Life Version

Then Joab said to his informant, “Look here, you saw him, so why didn’t you strike him there to the ground? I would have given you ten pieces of silver and a belt!”

Cross References

2 Samuel 18:10

Then a certain man saw it and told Joab saying, “Look, I saw Absalom hanging in an oak.”

2 Samuel 18:12

But the man said to Joab, “Even if I had 1,000 pieces of silver in my hand, I would not raise my hand against the king’s son; for in our hearing the king charged you, Abishai and Ittai saying, ‘Watch over the young man Absalom for me.’

2 Samuel 19:13

‘You are my kinsmen, my bone and my flesh! Why then should you be the last to bring back the king?’

Psalm 143:3

For an enemy pursues my soul. He crushes my life down to the ground. He makes me dwell in darkness, like those long dead.

Proverbs 1:19

Such is the fate of all gaining by violence. It takes the life of its possessor.