Devine Scripture

2 Samuel 18:9

2 Samuel chapter 18 · verse 9 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

And Absalom chanced to meet the servants of David. And Absalom was riding upon his 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 heaven and earth; and the mule that was under him went on.

KJV

King James Version · 1611

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.

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

And Absalom chanced to meet the servants of David. And Absalom was riding upon his 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 heaven and earth; and the mule that was under him went on.

Context

v.8For the battle was there spread over the face of all the country; and the forest devoured more people that day than the sword devoured.

v.9This passage

v.10And a certain man saw it, and told Joab, and said, Behold, I saw Absalom hanging in an oak.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Deuteronomy 21:23

    his body shall not remain all night upon the tree, but thou shalt surely bury him the same day; for he that is hanged is accursed of God; that thou defile not thy land which Jehovah thy God giveth thee for an inheritance.

  • Job 31:3

    Is it not calamity to the unrighteous, And disaster to the workers of iniquity?

  • Proverbs 30:17

    The eye that mocketh at his father, And despiseth to obey his mother, The ravens of the valley shall pick it out, And the young eagles shall eat it.

  • Deuteronomy 27:20

    Cursed be he that lieth with his father’s wife, because he hath uncovered his father’s skirt. And all the people shall say, Amen.

  • 2 Samuel 18:14

    Then said Joab, I may not tarry thus with thee. And he took three darts in his hand, and thrust them through the heart of Absalom, while he was yet alive in the midst of the oak.

  • Psalms 63:9

    But those that seek my soul, to destroy it, Shall go into the lower parts of the earth.