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2 Samuel 18:9
King James Version (1769 Blayney revision, with Apocrypha) · Berean Standard Bible
And Absalom met the servants of David. And Absalom rode upon a mule, and the mule went under the thick boughs of a great oak, and his head caught hold of the oak, and he was taken up between the heaven and the earth; and the mule that was under him went away.
Now Absalom was riding on his mule when he met the servants of David, and as the mule went under the thick branches of a large oak (note: Or large terebinth or very great tree; similarly in verses 10 and 14), Absalom’s head was caught fast in the tree. The mule under him kept going, so that he was suspended in midair.