2 Samuel 18:6-10
2 Samuel 18:6
Then the people went out to the field against Israel, and the battle took place in the forest of Ephraim.
2 Samuel 18:7
The people of Israel were defeated there by the servants of David, and the slaughter there that day was great, twenty thousand men.
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.
2 Samuel 18:9
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.
2 Samuel 18:10
When a certain man saw him, he informed Joab and said, “Behold, I saw Absalom hanging in an oak.”