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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.

10 And a certain man saw it and told Joab, saying, Behold, I saw Absalom hanged in an oak.

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