2 Samuel 18:9

ASV⁽ⁱ⁾ ⁹ 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.

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his head.Riding furiously under the thick boughs of a great oak, which hung low and had never been cropped, either the twisted branches, or some low forked bough of the tree, caught him by the neck, or, as some think, by the loops into which his long hair had been pinned, which had been so much his pride, and was now justly made a halter for him. He may have hung so low from the bough, in consequence of the length of his hair, that he could not use his hands to help himself, or so entangled that his hands were bound, so that the more he struggled the more he was embarrassed. This set him up as a fair mark to the servants of David; and although David would have spared his rebellious son, if his orders had been executed, yet he could not turn the sword of Divine justice, in executing the just, righteous sentence of death on this traitorous son.
2 Samuel 18:14; 2 Samuel 14:26; 2 Samuel 17:23; Matthew 27:5
taken up.
Deuteronomy 21:23; Deuteronomy 27:16; Deuteronomy 27:20; Job 18:8-10; Job 31:3; Psalms 63:9; Psalms 63:10; Proverbs 20:20; Proverbs 30:17
Jeremiah 48:44; Mark 7:10; Galatians 3:13