2 Samuel 18:9-11

GOD’S WORD Translation

⁹ Absalom happened to come face to face with some of David’s men. He was riding on a mule, and the mule went under the tangled branches of a large tree. Absalom’s head became caught in the tree. So he was left hanging ^[a] in midair when the mule that was under him ran away. ¹⁰ A man who saw this told Joab, “I saw Absalom hanging in a tree.”

¹¹ “What! You saw that!” Joab said to the man who told him. “Why didn’t you strike him to the ground? Then I would have felt obligated to give you four ounces of silver and a belt.”