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2 Samuel 18:9-11
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9 Then Absalom happened to come across David’s men. Now as Absalom was riding on his[a] mule, it[b] went under the branches of a large oak tree. His head got caught in the oak and he was suspended in midair,[c] while the mule he had been riding kept going.

10 When one[d] of the men saw this, he reported it to Joab saying, “I saw Absalom hanging in an oak tree.” 11 Joab replied to the man who was telling him this, “What! You saw this? Why didn’t you strike him down right on the spot?[e] I would have given you ten pieces of silver[f] and a commemorative belt!”[g]

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Samuel 18:9 tn Heb “the.”
  2. 2 Samuel 18:9 tn Heb “the donkey.”
  3. 2 Samuel 18:9 tn Heb “between the sky and the ground.”
  4. 2 Samuel 18:10 tc 4QSama lacks the word “one.”
  5. 2 Samuel 18:11 tn Heb “Why did you not strike him down there to the ground.”
  6. 2 Samuel 18:11 tn Heb “ten [shekels] of silver.” This would have been about 4 ounces (114 grams) of silver by weight.
  7. 2 Samuel 18:11 tn Heb “and a girdle” (so KJV); NIV “a warrior’s belt”; CEV “a special belt”; NLT “a hero’s belt.”
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