 Soothly it befelled, that Absalom, sitting on a mule, came against the servants of David; and when the mule had entered under a thick oak, and great, the head of Absalom cleaved to the oak; and when he was hanged betwixt heaven and earth, the mule, on which he sat, passed forth. And it befell, that Absalom, sitting on a mule, came toward Davids men; and when the mule had entered under a great thick oak, Absaloms head got caught in the branches; and while he hung in the air above the ground, the mule, on which he sat, went forth. 