2 Samuel

Focuses on King David's reign, his troubles, successes, and the promise of his dynasty.

Chapter 18

KJV - 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.

Absalom met David's workers. Absalom rode a mule under a big tree's branches. The mule got stuck, and Absalom was halfway between sky and ground. Meanwhile, the mule below him escaped.

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