Absalom happened to meet David’s servants. Absalom was riding on his mule, and the mule went under the thick boughs of a great oak; and his head caught hold of the oak, and he was hanging between the sky and earth; and the mule that was under him went on.
THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE
2 Samuel 18:9 in context
2 Samuel 18:6–12
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So the people went out into the field against Israel; and the battle was in the forest of Ephraim.
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The people of Israel were struck there before David’s servants, and there was a great slaughter there that day of twenty thousand men.
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For the battle was there spread over the surface of all the country, and the forest devoured more people that day than the sword devoured.
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Absalom happened to meet David’s servants. Absalom was riding on his mule, and the mule went under the thick boughs of a great oak; and his head caught hold of the oak, and he was hanging between the sky and earth; and the mule that was under him went on.
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A certain man saw it, and told Joab, and said, “Behold, I saw Absalom hanging in an oak.”
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Joab said to the man who told him, “Behold, you saw it, and why didn’t you strike him there to the ground? I would have given you ten pieces of silver and a sash.”
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The man said to Joab, “Though I should receive a thousand pieces of silver in my hand, I still wouldn’t stretch out my hand against the king’s son; for in our hearing the king commanded you and Abishai and Ittai, saying, ‘Beware that no one touch the young man Absalom.’
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