¶ For the battle was scattered over all the country: and the wood devoured much more people that day than did the sword.

¶ Now Absalom met the servants of David, and Absalom rode upon a mule, and the mule came under a great thick oak: and his head caught hold of the oak, and he was taken up [a]between the heaven and the earth: and the mule that was under him went away.

10 And one that saw it, told Joab, saying, Behold, I saw Absalom hanged in an oak.

Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. 2 Samuel 18:9 This is a terrible example of God’s vengeance against them that are rebels or disobedient to their parents.

Bible Gateway Recommends