2 Samuel 18:8-10

Easy-to-Read Version

⁸ The battle spread throughout the country, but more men died in the forest than by the sword.

⁹ It so happened that David’s officers found Absalom. Absalom jumped on his mule and tried to escape, but the mule went under the branches of a large oak tree. The branches were thick, and Absalom’s head got caught in the tree. His mule ran out from under him, so Absalom was left hanging above the ground.^[a]

¹⁰ Someone saw this happen and told Joab, “I saw Absalom hanging in an oak tree.”