And the man said unto Joab
Disdaining his proposal:
though I should receive a thousand [shekels] of silver in mine hand;
or such a sum should be offered to me; the Arabic version is a million;
[yet] would I not put forth my hand against the king's son;
to smite him, and slay him:
for in our hearing the king charged thee, and Abishai, and Ittai;
his three generals:
saying, beware that none [touch] the young man Absalom;
so as to slay him; they were charged to abstain from it themselves, and to watch and observe others, and keep them from doing it.