⁸ The battle there was spread out over the whole area, and the forest consumed more soldiers than the sword devoured that day.

⁹ Then Absalom happened to come across David’s men. Now as Absalom was riding on his^[a] mule, it^[b] went under the branches of a large oak tree. His head got caught in the oak and he was suspended in midair,^[c] while the mule he had been riding kept going.

¹⁰ When one^[d] of the men saw this, he reported it to Joab saying, “I saw Absalom hanging in an oak tree.”