2 Samuel 18:10
8 For the battle was there scattered over the face of all the country: and the wood devoured more people that day than the sword devoured.
9 And Absalom met the servants of David. And Absalom rode upon a mule, and the mule went under the thick boughs of a great oak, and his head caught hold of the oak, and he was taken up between the heaven and the earth; and the mule that was under him went away.
And a certain man saw it, and told Joab, and said, Behold, I saw Absalom hanged in an oak.
11 And Joab said unto the man that told him, And, behold, thou sawest him, and why didst thou not smite him there to the ground? and I would have given thee ten shekels of silver, and a girdle.
12 And the man said unto Joab, Though I should receive a thousand shekels of silver in mine hand, yet would I not put forth mine hand against the king’s son: for in our hearing the king charged thee and Abishai and Ittai, saying, Beware that none touch the young man Absalom.
Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- When one of the men saw this, he told Joab, “I just saw Absalom hanging in an oak tree!”
- KJV
- And a certain man saw it, and told Joab, and said, Behold, I saw Absalom hanged in an oak.
- WEB
- A certain man saw it, and told Joab, and said, “Behold, I saw Absalom hanging in an oak.”
- ASV
- And a certain man saw it, and told Joab, and said, Behold, I saw Absalom hanging in an oak.
- DARBY
- And a man saw it, and told Joab, and said, Behold, I saw Absalom hanging in a terebinth.
- BLB
- And a man saw [it] and told Joab, and he said, “Behold, I saw Absalom hanging in an oak tree.”
- ÅB
- Dette fikk en mann se, meldte det til Joab og sa: Jeg så Absalom henge i terebinten der borte.
- OTB
- En mann så det og fortalte Joab: "Se, jeg så Absalom henge i en eik."
- B1930
- Dette fikk en mann se, meldte det til Joab og sa: Jeg så Absalom henge i terebinten der borte.