2 Samuel 18:10-12
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised
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!
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