2 Samuel 18:9KJV
Protestant Bible · KJV · Verse 9 of 33
"And Absalom met the servants of David. And Absalom rode upon a mule, and the mule went under the thick boughs of a great oak, and his head caught hold of the oak, and he was taken up between the heaven and the earth; and the mule that under him went away."
In context
7Where the people of Israel were slain before the servants of David, and there was there a great slaughter that day of twenty thousand .
8For the battle was there scattered over the face of all the country: and the wood devoured more people that day than the sword devoured.
9And Absalom met the servants of David. And Absalom rode upon a mule, and the mule went under the thick boughs of a great oak, and his head caught hold of the oak, and he was taken up between the heaven and the earth; and the mule that under him went away.
10And a certain man saw , and told Joab, and said, Behold, I saw Absalom hanged in an oak.
11And Joab said unto the man that told him, And, behold, thou sawest , and why didst thou not smite him there to the ground? and I would have given thee ten of silver, and a girdle.