2 Samuel 18:10-12

21st Century King James Version

¹⁰ 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 who told him, “And behold, thou sawest him, and why did 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.’