2 Samuel 18:8-10

New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

⁸ The battle spread over the face of all the country; and the forest claimed more victims that day than the sword.

⁹ Absalom happened to meet the servants of David. Absalom was riding on his mule, and the mule went under the thick branches of a great oak. His head caught fast in the oak, and he was left hanging^[a] between heaven and earth, while the mule that was under him went on. ¹⁰ A man saw it, and told Joab, “I saw Absalom hanging in an oak.”