2 Samuel 18:10

10 And a certain man saw it and told Joab, “Behold, I saw Absalom hanging in an oak. ”

2 Samuel 18:10 Meaning and Commentary

2 Samuel 18:10

And a certain man saw [it]
Saw him in the above posture, one of David's soldiers:

and told Joab, and said, behold, I saw Absalom hanged in an oak;
caught by the neck in one, out of which he could not disengage himself, but there he hung, though alive.

2 Samuel 18:10 In-Context

8 The battle spread over the face of all the country, and the forest devoured more people that day than the sword.

9 And Absalom happened to meet the servants of David. Absalom was riding on his mule, and the mule went under the thick branches of a great oak, and his head caught fast in the oak, and he was suspended between heaven and earth, while the mule that was under him went on.

10 And a certain man saw it and told Joab, “Behold, I saw Absalom hanging in an oak. ”

11 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. ”

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 reach out 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. ’