and Joab said to the man who told him, And behold, you have seen. And why did you not strike him to the earth there and call on me to give you ten silverlings and a girdle?
And Absalom happened to come before David’s servants. And Absalom was riding on a mule, and the mule came in under the thick branches of a great oak. And his head was firmly held in the oak, and he was lifted up between the heaven and the earth; and the mule that was under him passed on.
Let be given to us seven men of his sons to us. And we will expose them to Jehovah in Gibeah of Saul, the chosen of Jehovah. And the king said, I will deliver them.
Christ redeemed us from the curse of the Law, having become a curse for us; for it is written, “Accursed is everyone having been hung on a tree;” Deut. 21:23