2 Samuel 18:9

WEB

⁹Absalom happened to meet David’s servants. Absalom was riding on his mule, and the mule went under the thick boughs of a great oak; and his head caught hold of the oak, and he was hanging between the sky and earth; and the mule that was under him went on.

KJV

⁹¶ 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 was under him went away.

BSB

⁹Now Absalom was riding on his mule when he met the servants of David, and as the mule went under the thick branches of a large oak,^[+] head was caught fast in the tree. The mule under him kept going, so that he was suspended in midair.

FBV

⁹Absalom ran into some of David's men while he was riding on his mule. As the mule went under the twisted branches of a large oak tree, Absalom's hair got caught in the tree. The mule he was riding kept going, leaving him hanging between earth and sky.

Extra References

2 Samuel 14:26

²⁶When he cut the hair of his head (now it was at every year’s end that he cut it; because it was heavy on him, therefore he cut it), he weighed the hair of his head at two hundred shekels,^[+] after the king’s weight.

Proverbs 30:17

¹⁷“The eye that mocks at his father, and scorns obedience to his mother, the ravens of the valley shall pick it out, the young eagles shall eat it.

Job 31:3

³Is it not calamity to the unrighteous, and disaster to the workers of iniquity?

Psalms 63:9-10

⁹But those who seek my soul to destroy it shall go into the lower parts of the earth. ¹⁰They shall be given over to the power of the sword. They shall be jackal food.

Deuteronomy 27:16

¹⁶‘Cursed is he who dishonors his father or his mother.’ All the people shall say, ‘Amen.’

Jeremiah 48:44

⁴⁴“He who flees from the terror will fall into the pit; and he who gets up out of the pit will be taken in the snare, for I will bring on him, even on Moab, the year of their visitation,” says the LORD.

Proverbs 20:20

²⁰Whoever curses his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in blackness of darkness.

Mark 7:10

¹⁰For Moses said, ‘Honor your father and your mother;’and, ‘He who speaks evil of father or mother, let him be put to death.’

Deuteronomy 27:20

²⁰‘Cursed is he who lies with^[+] his father’s wife, because he dishonors his father’s bed.’ All the people shall say, ‘Amen.’

Deuteronomy 21:23

²³his body shall not remain all night on the tree, but you shall surely bury him the same day; for he who is hanged is accursed of God. Don’t defile your land which the LORD your God gives you for an inheritance.