2 Samuel 18:9

New American Standard Bible 2020

Now Absalom encountered the servants of David. Absalom was riding on his mule, and the mule went under the branches of a massive oak. Then his head caught firmly in the oak, and he was left hanging between the sky and earth, while the mule that was under him kept going.

Cross References

2 Samuel 13:29

And the servants of Absalom did to Amnon just as Absalom had commanded. Then all the king’s sons got up and each mounted his mule and fled.

2 Samuel 14:26

And when he cut the hair of his head (and it was at the end of every year that he cut it, because it was heavy on him, so he cut it), he weighed the hair of his head at two hundred shekels by the king’s weight.

2 Samuel 17:23

Now when Ahithophel saw that his advice had not been followed, he saddled his donkey and set out and went to his home, to his city, and set his house in order, and hanged himself; so he died and was buried in his father’s grave.

2 Samuel 18:10

When a certain man saw him, he informed Joab and said, “Behold, I saw Absalom hanging in an oak.”

2 Samuel 18:14

Then Joab said, “I will not waste time here with you.” So he took three spears in his hand and thrust them through the heart of Absalom while he was still alive in the midst of the oak.

2 Samuel 18:8

For the battle there was spread over the whole countryside, and the forest devoured more people that day than the sword devoured.

Job 31:3

“Is it not disaster to the criminal, And misfortune to those who practice injustice?

Proverbs 20:20

He who curses his father or his mother, His lamp will go out in time of darkness.

Proverbs 30:17

The eye that mocks a father And scorns a mother, The ravens of the valley will pick it out, And the young eagles will eat it.

Jeremiah 48:44

“The one who flees from the terror Will fall into the pit, And the one who climbs up out of the pit Will be caught in the snare; For I will bring upon her, upon Moab, The year of their punishment,” declares the Lord.

Matthew 27:5

And he threw the pieces of silver into the temple sanctuary and left; and he went away and hanged himself.

Mark 7:10

For Moses said, ‘Honor your father and your mother’; and, ‘The one who speaks evil of father or mother, is certainly to be put to death’;

Galatians 3:13

Christ redeemed us from the curse of the Law, having become a curse for us—for it is written: “Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree”—

Deuteronomy 21:23

his body is not to be left overnight on the tree, but you shall certainly bury him on the same day (for he who is hanged is cursed of God), so that you do not defile your land which the Lord your God is giving you as an inheritance.

Deuteronomy 27:16

‘Cursed is one who treats his father or mother contemptuously.’ And all the people shall say, ‘Amen.’

Deuteronomy 27:20

‘Cursed is he who sleeps with his father’s wife, because he has uncovered his father’s garment.’ And all the people shall say, ‘Amen.’