2 Samuel 18:10-12

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition

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!