2 Samuel 18:9
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.
KJV
Accidit autem ut occurreret Absalom servis David, sedens mulo : cumque ingressus fuisset mulus subter condensam quercum et magnam, adhæsit caput ejus quercui : et illo suspenso inter cælum et terram, mulus cui insederat, pertransivit.
Vulgate
καὶ συνήντησεν Ἀβεσσαλὼμ ἐνώπιον τῶν παίδων Δαυείδ· καὶ Ἀβεσσαλὼμ ἐπιβεβηκὼς ἐπὶ τοῦ ἡμιόνου αὐτοῦ, καὶ εἰσῆλθεν ὁ ἡμίονος ὑπὸ τὸ δάσος τῆς δρυὸς τῆς μεγάλης, καὶ ἐκρεμάσθη ἡ κεφαλὴ αὐτοῦ ἐν τῇ δρυί· καὶ ἐκρεμάσθη ἀνὰ μέσον τοῦ οὐρανοῦ καὶ ἀνὰ μέσον τῆς γῆς, καὶ ὁ ἡμίονος ὑποκάτω αὐτοῦ παρῆλθεν.
LXX
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.
ASV
וַ/יִּקָּרֵא֙ אַבְשָׁל֔וֹם לִ/פְנֵ֖י עַבְדֵ֣י דָוִ֑ד וְ/אַבְשָׁל֞וֹם רֹכֵ֣ב עַל הַ/פֶּ֗רֶד וַ/יָּבֹ֣א הַ/פֶּ֡רֶד תַּ֣חַת שׂוֹבֶךְ֩ הָ/אֵלָ֨ה הַ/גְּדוֹלָ֜ה וַ/יֶּחֱזַ֧ק רֹאשׁ֣/וֹ בָ/אֵלָ֗ה וַ/יֻּתַּן֙ בֵּ֤ין הַ/שָּׁמַ֨יִם֙ וּ/בֵ֣ין הָ/אָ֔רֶץ וְ/הַ/פֶּ֥רֶד אֲשֶׁר תַּחְתָּ֖י/ו עָבָֽר
Hebrew
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21 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.
Historic Christian voices
5 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
Cross-references
- 2Sam 13:29 — And the servants of Absalom did unto Amnon as Absalom had commanded. Then all the king’s sons arose, and every man gat him up upon his mule, and fled.
- 2Sam 14:26 — And when he polled his head, (for it was at every year’s end that he polled it: because the hair was heavy on him, therefore he polled it:) he weighed the hair of his head at two hundred shekels after
- 2Sam 14:26 — And when he polled his head, (for it was at every year’s end that he polled it: because the hair was heavy on him, therefore he polled it:) he weighed the hair of his head at two hundred shekels after
- Job 31:3 — Is not destruction to the wicked? and a strange punishment to the workers of iniquity?
- Prov 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.
- Ps 55:15 — Let death seize upon them, and let them go down quick into hell: for wickedness is in their dwellings, and among them.