2 Samuel 18:9 - Forerunner Commentary

2 Samuel 18:9

7 The people of Israel were overthrown there before the servants of David, and a great slaughter of twenty thousand took place there that day.

8 For the battle there was scattered over the face of the whole countryside, and the woods devoured more people that day than the sword devoured.

9 Then Absalom met the servants of David. Absalom rode on a mule. The mule went under the thick boughs of a great terebinth tree, and ^ahis head caught in the terebinth; so he was left hanging between heaven and earth. And the mule which was under him went on.

10 Now a certain man saw it and told Joab, and said, “I just saw Absalom hanging in a terebinth tree!”

11 So Joab said to the man who told him, “You just saw him! And why did you not strike him there to the ground? I would have given you ten shekels of silver and a belt.”

12 But the man said to Joab, “Though I were to receive a thousand shekels of silver in my hand, I would not raise my hand against the king’s son. ^aFor in our hearing the king commanded you and Abishai and Ittai, saying, ‘Beware lest anyone touch the young man Absalom!’

13 Otherwise I would have dealt falsely against my own life. For there is nothing hidden from the king, and you yourself would have set yourself against me.”

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Interlinear Bible for 2 Samuel 18:9:

And Absalom
'Abiyshalowm (#53) met
qara' (#7122) the servants
`ebed (#5650) of David.
David (#1732) And Absalom
'Abiyshalowm (#53) rode
rakab (#7392) upon
`al (#5921) a mule,
pered (#6505) and the mule
pered (#6505) went
bow' (#935) under
tachath (#8478) the thick boughs
sowbek (#7730) of a great
gadowl (#1419) oak,
'elah (#424) and his head
ro'sh (#7218) caught hold
chazaq (#2388) of the oak,
'elah (#424) and he was taken up
nathan (#5414) between
beyn (#996) the heaven
shamayim (#8064) and the earth;
'erets (#776) and the mule
pered (#6505) that
'aher (#834) was under
tachath (#8478) him went away.
`abar (#5674)

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