And it happened, there the battle was scattered over the face of all the land, and the forest devoured among the people more than the sword had devoured in that day.
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.
And those remaining fled to Aphek, to the city. And the wall fell on them, on twenty-seven thousand of those left. And Ben-hadad fled, and came into the city, into an inner room.
And it happened, as they fled from the face of Israel, they were in the descent of Beth-horon, even Jehovah cast great hail stones on them out of the heavens, to Azekah; and they died. The many who died by the hail stones were more than the sons of Israel had killed by the sword.