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where the people of Israel were slain before the slaves of David, and there was there a great slaughter that day of twenty thousand men.

For the battle was there scattered over the face of all the land, and the forest devoured more people that day than the sword devoured.

¶ And Absalom met the slaves 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 was under him went away.

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