2 Samuel 18:10

10 A man saw it, and told Joab, "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 claimed more victims that day than the sword.

9 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. His head caught fast in the oak, and he was left hanging between heaven and earth, while the mule that was under him went on.

10 A man saw it, and told Joab, "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 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!