2 Samuel 18:9

Rotherham Emphasized Bible 1902

Now, when Absolom met the servants of David, Absolom, was riding upon a mule, and the mule came under the thick branches of a large oak, and his head caught hold of the oak, and he was suspended between heaven and earth, the mule that was under him passing on.

Cross References

2 Samuel 14:26

And when he polled his head—and it was at every year’s end that he used to poll it, because it was heavy upon him, therefore he used to poll it—he would weigh the hair of his head, two hundred shekels, by the royal standard.

Proverbs 30:17

The eye that mocketh a father, and despiseth to obey a mother, the ravens of the valley shall pick it out, and the young of the eagle shall eat it.

Job 31:3

Is there not calamity, for the perverse? and misfortune, for the workers of iniquity?

Galatians 3:13

Christ, hath redeemed, us, out of the curse of the law, having become, in our behalf, a curse;—because it is written—Cursed, is every one that hangeth upon a tree;—

Mark 7:10

For, Moses, said—Honour thy father and thy mother, and—He that revileth father or mother, let him, surely die,—

Jeremiah 48:44

He that fleeth from the face of the terror, Shall fall into the pit, And, he that getteth up out of the pit, Shall be captured by the snare,—For I will bring against her—against Moab, The year of their visitation, Declareth Yahweh.

Proverbs 20:20

Whoso revileth his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in deep darkness.

2 Samuel 18:14

And Joab said, Not thus, may I tarry before thee. And he took three darts in his hand, and thrust them into the heart of Absolom, while he was yet alive in the midst of the oak.

2 Samuel 17:23

Now, when, Ahithophel, saw that his counsel was not followed, he saddled his ass, and arose and went unto his own house, unto his own city, and gave charge unto his household, and hanged himself, and died, and was buried in the grave of his father.

Deuteronomy 27:20

Cursed, be he that lieth with his father’s wife, because he hath turned aside his father’s coverlet. And all the people shall say—Amen.

Deuteronomy 27:16

Cursed, be he that holdeth in light esteem his father or his mother. And all the people shall say—Amen.

Deuteronomy 21:23

his dead body shall not remain all night upon the tree but thou shalt bury, him on the same day, for a reproach unto God, is he that is hanged,—so shalt thou not make unclean thy soil which Yahweh thy God is giving unto thee for an inheritance.

Matthew 27:5

And, throwing the pieces of silver into the Temple, he withdrew, and, going away, hanged himself.

2 Samuel 13:29

So Absolom’s young men did to Amnon as Absolom had commanded. Then arose all the king’s sons, and rode away—each man on his mule, and fled.

2 Samuel 18:8

And the battle there was spread out over the face of all the land,—and the forest devoured more of the people than the sword devoured on that day.

2 Samuel 18:10

And a certain man saw it, and told Joab,—and said—Lo! I saw Absolom suspended in an oak.