And Absalom met the servants of David. And Absalom rode upon a mule, and the mule went under the thick boughs of a great oak, and his head caught hold of the oak, and he was taken up between the heaven and the earth; and the mule that was under him went away.

And Rizpah the daughter of Aiah took sackcloth, and spread it for her upon the rock, from the beginning of harvest until water dropped upon them out of heaven, and suffered neither 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 moved and shook, because he was wroth.

He bowed the heavens also, and came down; and darkness was under his feet.

The Lord thundered from heaven, and the most High uttered his voice.