2 Samuel 18:8-10

Modern English Version

⁸ The fighting spread across the land, and the people consumed by the forest were more numerous than those consumed by the sword that day.

⁹ Absalom was encountered by some of the servants of David. Now Absalom was riding on his mule. When the mule went under the branches of a very large tree, his head was caught in the tree. He was left in midair while the mule that was under him kept going.

¹⁰ One man saw him and reported it to Joab, saying, “I saw Absalom hanging in a tree.”