Then Absalom met the servants of David. Absalom rode on a mule. The mule went under the thick boughs of a great terebinth tree, and his head caught in the terebinth; so he was left hanging between heaven and earth. And the mule which was under him went on.

Now Rizpah the daughter of Aiah took sackcloth and spread it for herself on the rock, from the beginning of harvest until the late rains poured on them from heaven. And she did not allow the birds of the air to rest on them by day nor the beasts of the field by night.

“Then the earth shook and trembled; The foundations of heaven quaked and were shaken, Because He was angry.

He bowed the heavens also, and came down With darkness under His feet.

“The Lord thundered from heaven, And the Most High uttered His voice.