2 Samuel 18:9

New King James Version

Then Absalom met the servants of David. Absalom rode on a mule. The mule went under the thick boughs of a great terebinth tree, and his head caught in the terebinth; so he was left hanging between heaven and earth. And the mule which was under him went on.

Cross References

2 Samuel 13:29

So the servants of Absalom did to Amnon as Absalom had commanded. Then all the king’s sons arose, and each one got on his mule and fled.

2 Samuel 14:26

And when he cut the hair of his head—at the end of every year he cut it because it was heavy on him—when he cut it, he weighed the hair of his head at two hundred shekels according to the king’s standard.

2 Samuel 17:23

Now when Ahithophel saw that his advice was not followed, he saddled a donkey, and arose and went home to his house, to his city. Then he put his household in order, and hanged himself, and died; and he was buried in his father’s tomb.

2 Samuel 18:10

Now a certain man saw it and told Joab, and said, “I just saw Absalom hanging in a terebinth tree!”

2 Samuel 18:14

Then Joab said, “I cannot linger with you.” And he took three spears in his hand and thrust them through Absalom’s heart, while he was still alive in the midst of the terebinth tree.

2 Samuel 18:8

For the battle there was scattered over the face of the whole countryside, and the woods devoured more people that day than the sword devoured.

Job 31:3

Is it not destruction for the wicked, And disaster for the workers of iniquity?

Proverbs 20:20

Whoever curses his father or his mother, His lamp will be put out in deep darkness.

Proverbs 30:17

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

Jeremiah 48:44

“He who flees from the fear shall fall into the pit, And he who gets out of the pit shall be caught in the snare. For upon Moab, upon it I will bring The year of their punishment,” says the Lord.

Matthew 27:5

Then he threw down the pieces of silver in the temple and departed, and went and hanged himself.

Mark 7:10

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

Galatians 3:13

Christ has 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 shall not remain overnight on the tree, but you shall surely bury him that day, so that you do not defile the land which the Lord your God is giving you as an inheritance; for he who is hanged is accursed of God.

Deuteronomy 27:16

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

Deuteronomy 27:20

‘Cursed is the one who lies with his father’s wife, because he has uncovered his father’s bed.’ “And all the people shall say, ‘Amen!’