²⁸ They also brought to the proper place their quotas of barley and straw for the chariot horses and the other horses.

⁴⁴ The king has sent with him Zadok the priest, Nathan the prophet, Benaiah son of Jehoiada, the Kerethites and the Pelethites, and they have put him on the king’s mule,

³⁸ So Zadok^(A) the priest, Nathan the prophet, Benaiah son of Jehoiada, the Kerethites^(B) and the Pelethites went down and had Solomon mount King David’s mule, and they escorted him to Gihon.^(C)

⁹ Now Absalom happened to meet David’s men. He was riding his mule, and as the mule went under the thick branches of a large oak, Absalom’s hair^(A) got caught in the tree. He was left hanging in midair, while the mule he was riding kept on going.

²⁹ So Absalom’s men did to Amnon what Absalom had ordered. Then all the king’s sons got up, mounted their mules and fled.

¹⁰ (The Emites^(A) used to live there—a people strong and numerous, and as tall as the Anakites.^(B)

¹⁹ “‘Keep my decrees.^(A)

“‘Do not mate different kinds of animals.

“‘Do not plant your field with two kinds of seed.^(B)

“‘Do not wear clothing woven of two kinds of material.^(C)

¹⁵ A similar plague^(A) will strike the horses and mules, the camels and donkeys, and all the animals in those camps.